Letter 4518
The fork in the path was obvious. So, too, was my decision over which neighbor to trust.
Less apparent was choice after choice made without thinking. Where to step over a small stream? How to grasp a branch? Which way to turn my face when the wind blows?
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Unthinking, I did not choose and so let them choose themselves.
Let me act mindfully today, attentive to even the smallest choices.
Consider:
Can I be awake today?
Reading:
❖ “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” — William James, The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1, ch. 11
❖ “Being in the present is a very easy thing that comes about by simply noticing new things.” — Ellen Langer, interview with The Harvard Gazette, 2018
❖ “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep.” — Romans 13:11 (KJV)
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~B.R.
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