Moments of Quietude: It's Nice to Start a New Month!

Thursday, June 1st 2023

I find myself doing something sort of unusual to start off this month... sitting outside in a comfy chair with my feet in the sun, doing pretty much nothing, while Mrs. Denmarkguy is doing a reiki session for her friend - whose birthday happens to be today - so everything has to be quiet.

Normally, the 1st of any month tends to be pretty hectic, packed with end-of-month bookkeeping and setting up paperwork for a new month... for four small businesses.

Of course, I'm not exactly doing nothing in as much as I am sitting here just enjoying the freedom to have random thoughts... and writing down anything noteworthy that comes up. It's how many of my blog posts come into existence, actually.

Sitting in a lawn chair brings up old memories, mostly.

The temperatures and climate we have around here remind me a lot of where I grew up in Denmark... and today - being a sunny day - reminds me a lot of those early summer days when I was a kid and would be sent off to spend time at my auntie's house, mostly to give my parents some peace and quiet to... well, travel, or whatever it was they were into.

It might sound rude or even heartless to say that child rearing was not one of the things my parents were into. Well, not particularly, anyway.

I didn't mind being sent to my auntie's... at all. In fact, it was a relief to be somewhere where I didn't feel eternally "micromanaged," primarily for the purpose of making sure that I didn't break anything, or get dirt on the furniture.

My auntie also wasn't of the persuasion that there was something wrong with a kid who wasn't moving at all times... and my preference was for being a stationary object!

Some 55 years later, not much has changed! I still prefer being a stationary object! Whether or not I am actually Slothly is open to debate...

I once tried to explain to someone that my mind actually does its best work when I am doing nothing... but evidently that is too counterintuitive for a lot of folks.

Thankfully, my auntie - who was 56 years my senior - actually encouraged me to "sit and see" as she would call it. I have much gratitude for that, as it has been at the core of my ability to remain calm and grounded when life around me starts to feel like a complete shitstorm.

The fact that I don't get up and dramatically run around like a chicken wtih my head cut off doesn't mean that I don't care that "something" happened... it merely means I am calmly examining the situation and evaluating the best way to bring some semblance of order to chaos.

One of the more poignant statements I heard some years back (and no, this is not a COMPLETE non-sequitur!) was a psychologist friend who talked about a particular group of people who like to create and immerse themselves in chaos while defending their actions by mislabeling what they are doing as "passion."

No. No it's not. It's just chaos.

Much later — after enjoying about three hours in the lawn chair — I launched into doing the end-of-month stuff. I just finished, about half an hour ago. All is well!

But I am glad I got a slow start to the month!

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