A Light-hearted Journey of Somatic self-discovery
I love to write - and I love to notice things in new ways.
You see, I really don't like the word "mindfulness". It originally meant simply paying attention and noticing without judging, but It has become (to my mind anyway) infused with a sort of pious perfection. Images portray someone sitting virtuously upright with a well-behaved, well-coiffed mind melting in a pond of stillness. And that's wonderful when you can do it.
On the other hand, I am cranky, messy, and distracted, but I do pay attention to things just for fun... things most people never pay attention to. I'm not sure why, except that my mind loves to cut, color, and paste words together in new and different ways... a way that seems to "fit" my experience of it. I especially love made-up words and phrases - and words that might not go together, like mischief and mindfulness because that's a better description of how my quirky, misbehaving mind actually works.
So, I hope you enjoy these musings. This is meant to be a coffee blog - short pieces to read while you're drinking coffee, sipping an iced tea, or waiting for someone... short pieces to amuse you and maybe even awaken your senses to their own signature form of "noticing without judgment". Unique Sensory Awareness.
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