Dawdling

In the mailbox this January 27th, 2023,

An explanation: Why spend time with the eddies of The Watercourse:

You miss things when you’re in a hurry. Everything happens so fast in our world that to slow down is to offer the reminder, to yourself and to those who walk with you, that each step is a precious step. It turns out that going slow gets you from one moment to the next just as effectively as going fast, as long as you don’t dawdle. – Susan Moon

Everything is changing constantly, while the awareness, the fact of being aware of sensations and change, does not change.

Speaking of dawdle. Below are two who's dawdling gave us extraordinary gifts . . .

Today is the 267th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The child prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria (1756). He died on December 5th, 1791 at the age of 35.

Lewis Carroll was also born on this day, but in Daresbury, England and in 1832. Born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, is especially remembered for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass which contains the poem “Jabberwocky.” He used the pseudonym for all his published non-academic writing

When you give up striving for happiness, guess what happens: . . . happiness.