Monday is the day I get off and today is the first day in weeks where nothing, absolutely nothing, was on the calendar as a meeting, appointment, conference call or emerging work to be done. One wonders sometimes what people do on their days off and why it is more important than you think to plan nothing.
When the kids were younger and at home there was always the family time. Home was the revolving center and the noise and energy was its heartbeat. It would be nice to repeat those eventful days. Then the kids move on and one should start thinking of what you plan to do. Sure you can always work. The in-basket and email in-folder is bottomless. Then there are the library of books, too many to count, that would be great to finish. And the list goes on.
It is important that sometimes you don’t need a planned day, that it can be moments of serendipity. Today I found a real great song that will be played dozens of time. There is a kids video “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” that I need to watch. (that is somewhat work related…) and getting back to reading a bit of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon. The sun is also out with the blue sky inviting me to a walk on the mountain. Some say the internet is a time waster. When you start following those items that you have an interest in, I really can’t see that as wasting time. If we had a limited capacity to learn then it could be considered wasting time. So far there haven’t been too many people that have had to shut down their intellectual curiosity for anything other than a lack of time. The best reason of all to be serendipitous are the words of Sandy Denny’s song “Who Knows Where the Time Goes“.
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