Monday, September 4, 2023
I usually get up early, before daylight. I never set an alarm. I just wake up when it’s time. I like to open the window and to hear the birds singing; but on this day, I noticed that the birds were silent. Their chirping seemed to be “late.” But then it dawned on me that the days were getting shorter. Daybreak was taking a little longer by the wall clock, not The Clock. Clock time means nothing to a bird. Ask a bird what time it is, and they’ll say, “It’s now, of course.” They go by the variable rhythms of nature. We tend to ignore those natural undulations however, preferring instead to follow routine. But I think we’re out of tune with the effervescence of variation and the callings of our own evolution.
What has happened to whimsy? Why so strict? We’re not good at going with the flow of spontaneity. We just follow the schedule, not a thought for what might be different. Is it time for change? Is it time to be silent? Is it time to finally do what you’ve been thinking of doing?
You have many yearnings for change. Very few of us pay attention. We fight undulation and trade it for predictability. We get locked in. Nature hates that – she’s wiggly. Cage a wild creature and watch it suffer. Are you in tune with your evolving flow? Most of us are locked into habitual prison. There’s no effervescence. There’s no spontaneity. There’s no growth. We’re trapped in routine and the world goes grey. To be rigid is to die; to wiggle and uncoil whimsically is to live. To revive the multitudinous color of life, wake up to what might be calling you to wiggle out from under rigid perceptions and structures that keep you from evolving. Are you locked in? You can break free.