December 31. The last day of 2014 - not that it really matters - it's just another day passing early in the annual cycle of slowly lengthening post-solstice days. But we mark each "new" year as a holiday, and we got off work two hours early, letting me walk home before the sun went down.
I took the long way around today, walking down to Sligo Creek and then up the path and to the house from the opposite way - adding probably 3/4 of a mile to the trek.
I've been working on how to be more present - how to experience life more fully and deeply - and I've concluded that one key is approaching each experience as if it was brand new.
If I assume that because I've walked the path to and from work several thousand times that there is nothing new to see, my brain will oblige and ignore most of what is happening around me.
If I look for something new, it is always there.
Consciously not letting my past determine my present, I open up to more experience, trying to see it without immediately judging it as good or bad, beautiful or ugly, of use or not. Exploring, playing, sensing - participating with the world around me in creating my present experience.
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