now and forever, may 2008 will always be a momentous month for me because it is the month that i stopped wearing a round-the-clock timepiece.
i've worn a wristwatch since i was a youngster kid. always knowing exactly what time it is becomes an addiction of sorts.
since i don't really need to know the exact clock time every moment of every day at this time of my life, i decided this would be a good time to end yet another addiction and lose this mechanical piece of time strapped to my wrist, tethered to my very being, so to speak.
that lapse was a couple of weeks ago now. so far, the world from my perspective seems about the same as it always was. i haven't noticed much of a change--no dangerous time warps, except for my generally being late for everything. luckily that's not usually a bad thing in honolulu.
years ago in florida i began taking lessons from my feline huntress, sade, a zen master for sure. i started trying to be more conscious of being aware of and living in the moment, in the now so to speak as did she, the sage magi sade. no matter what the time, it was always there, my awareness of the clock time, so i was in the now but also still on the clock.
for now those years ago have passed, and presently, as of now, i pretty much am living in the now. never fear, i'm not totally out of temporal touch. i still know the approximate clock time, but not the exact time, 24/7, not for now. now instead of a pre-programmed glance down at my wrist, if the need compels me, i must actively search for the nearest available mechanical piece of time.
presently, the time is always new and always now, whether good or bad, but whatever the time it may be, or may seem to be, as of this month, currently, the time is now.
*thanks again to one of the first on the list of my numerous feline zen masters, sade, whenever and wherever she may now be. thanks to her for getting me to notice this in 1991, the palindromic time. also thanks to my ever-presently purring z.m., ume prudence, who continues with me on this never-ending adventurous study of all that is the eternal now.
