Lingering

This is the part of the year where we feel as if we have been quite cooped up, physically and spiritually. The weeks seem to move a little slower, and hell, this time around we even have an extra day to the month. The drudgeist month.

I am training for a half-marathon, and as the training runs get longer, I am forced to go out to do them earlier in the day. Last week I set out at 4:45 am to do a nine-mile run, only because the rest of my day was so jam-packed. Pre-child, this was my every day routine, as it was the only way to incorporate training into my work life. I forgot that this was sacred time. I forgot how pristine the world can be before it wakes up and starts urging its inhabitants to rush. Maybe the inhabitants are urging the world to rush. Our endless cycle of rushing, completing, crossing off. You know, I will never trust a world that perpetuates this cycle. I will never trust a world that pushes snooze through this sacred time. A time that is so silent, so honest, that you have no opinion of yourself yet, you simply just are. There.

Do not write me off as preaching. I sleep through this sacred time most days, until I hear the thump, thump, thump of my leggy daughter in her crib. Then I stumble to warm milk, find a sweater and flip on PBS hoping that there is something amusing enough for her so I can come to life and start thinking about how to approach the day.

We all have money to make, people to feed and the need to entertain ourselves. But is this a core dilemma? Are you satisfied missing sacred time, whatever time that may be for you?

I cannot believe that A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle is Oprah's book of the month. This can be a great thing by raising the awareness of the general population who watches Oprah...the person seeking information and inspiration at the afternoon hour between carpools and homework crackdown. I urge anyone at any age to listen to what they have to say, sign up for the e-seminar that starts March 3rd or pick up a copy of his book. I promise, it will be exactly what you seek if you feel drudgery lingering on.

To slap myself in the face about the world rushing by that I will never trust? Only Eckhart Tolle can say it, "The world can only change from within."