Wednesday

Wednesday is a funny day. Here it sits in the middle of the week - Hump Day - it gets us to the other side, closer to Thursday and ultimately Friday - Which is the day we want because most of us want the weekend because we don't work. We spend our time counting time. Doesn't that seem silly? How much time do you think we spend counting time? If we took all the counting time, time, could we not put it to better use? We look forward to the holidays, countdown until Christmas will begin soon; then when Christmas has come and gone we start counting time until Easter, spring break, summer, then fall and Thanksgiving. Some people count time by their birthdays or anniversaries, or their children's birthdays - some people count time in short chunks; breakfast, lunch, dinner. I reckon people who are incarcerated count time in minute chunks - yard time, reading time, release time - that must be some crazy time counting! I am going to stop counting time. After I finish my class tonight I am not going to count the time until school begins in August. August 30th to be exact. I am not going to look on the calendar to find out how many days of actual vacation I have. I won't do it. We need to stop counting time and start living in the moment. Like my dog Zuko. He is just living in the moment. If I am gone one hour or three minutes he greets me with the same enthusiasm. He has not been lying in his kennel counting time until I return - he just celebrates my return. This is what we all need to do. We all need to not mark time by the calendar, we need to mark time by the moments we have and the fun we have and the joy of being. Our existence should not be, "Oh darn a dentist appointment next Tuesday, and the gynecologist again next month, and then school starts." How silly are we. Everyone, throw away your calendars! Just do it! Throw away your calendars, remove the watches from your wrists. You'll get where your supposed to be. Just feel your way. Let go of the time and the time becomes a gift not a burden. Yes, this is my new mantra - Time is a gift. I don't know about you but I like to open my gifts slowly, without ripping the paper - (might be able to rewrap something) so I am going to open my time very slowly and relish, mustard, and ketchup(like catch-up) a little play on words; ha, ha - on the business of living in the moment with Zuko. Just chewing away on his bone. I need a bone to chew on. Off to the kitchen, what can I chew on like a bone while I live in the moment of chewing the bone - Oh, shucks I have to go to class tonight. But I am not going to check the time, when I get there then that is when class begins! Put that in your pipe, but don't light it because there are a lot of bans on pipe smoking. Did they legalize marijuana in California? I was so busy counting down the days until summer vacation I did not get the election results. Who won? Who cares? Do we believe any one politician is different from the next? No, not really. Off to not count time. Whose with me? Surely, someone else will not count time with me. We can start a revolution the likes of which will put time back in its place, on the face of a clock or a watch and out of our heads!