"...Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. you will get an enormous reward. you will have created something."
Now that is some silly advise all of us could use. So easy to do, and yet, when last did you dance to the radio? I'm sitting in bed listening to the sound of the pouring rain outside (wait, I'm feeling an Adele song here) and it's suddenly the most beautiful sound i have ever heard. It's so simple really. Stop for just a second, right now, and listen out for three different sounds. I can hear the rain, a car in the distance and the fridge humming away. All these sounds are there, but we so busy being busy that we miss it.
I didn't learn about this in a motivational book or dvd, its not from the Secret and strange enough, it isn't one of our weird "leb" traditions. A beautiful reception grade teacher taught me this during my prac. She got all the kids to close their eyes and listen. Even with their short attention spans, they all managed to concentrate long enough to hear three different sounds. Surely we can take 2 mins out of our incredibly busy big person lives to be a little person again.
It's the simple little pleasures in life, like singing in the shower.
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a bird, mi fingers typing, a fly around the room...
love jan, with all my heart!