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May 01

Some mornings when I awake I am immediately overwhelmed by the day. My calendar looks like the scribblings of some mad scientist, with notes, arrows, and various drawings taking up every bit of free space. Every now and then there is a blank space. I love the blank spaces because they are like a window I can throw open to take breath after breath of air. When I was young, my life was filled with blank spaces. I had long wonderful days with nothing to do but lay in the yard and watch the clouds go by. What happened?

Americans are busier than ever. We work more hours than almost every other nation. But are we happier? I don't think so. People who are busy tend to use more disposable items, recycle less, and produce more CO2 gases. In addition, our obsession with work costs the environment. We are stuck in the rut of production and consumption.

It is time to simplify . You might start by "taking four windows of time" over the next 6 weeks. This would be a few hours, on 4 different days, where you did not schedule anything. We can also begin to change the "rules" of our approach to time. Let me know what you did, I might just watch some clouds.

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philip allsopwrote:

heres a thought. i retired two years ago, every morning since that first day, i open my eyes, decide wether to have another forty winks or get up. when i do it can be any time from 8.0 to prob 10.0. then i decide what to do that day. even after two years i still smile to myself and love fully the joy of time. and all this real space that is mine. keeping in mind that for fifty years at work i clocked an average 65 hour week at work. this ment many eighty hour weeks off and on for years. and so look forward to full retirement. i would not swop, and go back to being working age for all the money in the world.

May 31

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