Imagine

Life is meant to be experienced.  Going through the motions is not enough.  Wake up from the slumber - life means nothing but the collection of moments that make your life.  To spend years, months, days or even minutes frozen from the breath of life is a step closer to being lost.

Easy to say - hard to live - but the effort is demanded.   Remember those feelings that spark the curiosity, the fever of creativity, the desire to go deep and learn something - anything: bongo to guitar, cheesemonger to amateur chef, explorer to poet.  These are the things that matter every moment of every day - well anything that inspires and allows you to feel alive - even for a moment.

Reclamation and release - the challenges and struggles of a responsible adult.  Do you have those moment where you hear a story, a poem, a song that makes you feel a connection a spark to life? I should work harder to fill my life with those moments instead of letting the mundane consume me. To be fair to me (for a change of pace) I am getting better at this. I am learning/struggling with this concept of living. After a lifetime of surviving - looking at life beyond just barely making it - and trying to re-conceptualize my Life is more than just work, more than a job, more than the responsibilities tied around your neck.

A song and a poem for inspiration - things that move me.

• Wreck of the Day ('06) by Anna Nalick

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