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Paying Attention to Attention - Part 1

02. One of the hard parts

03. The list, for now

04. (Morning Wake Up Wars): #1: The automatic timer scare yourself awake alarm method

05. More than 2 items needs a list

06. (Morning Wake up Wars): #2: The Ritalin Freight Train Wake Up Routine

07. (Morning Wake up Wars): #3: I used to set my clock radio to the wrong time

08. Other Clocks, Other Times

09. They say Energy Follows Attention

10. The clock tricks went on for years


What is sacred about all of our lives, even those of us who would never dream of using such a word for it, is that God speaks to us through what happens to us - even through such unpromising events as walking up the road to get the mail out of the mailbox, maybe, or seeing something in the news that brings you up short, or laughing yourself silly with a friend. If skeptics ask to be shown an instance of God speaking to them in their lives, I suggest that they pay closer attention to the next time when, for unaccountable reasons, they find tears in their eyes.
-- Frederick Buechner


Paying Attention to Attention


Paying Attention to Attention

(Paying Attention to Attention - Part 1 - July 28, 2011

Who Pays for it?


This is a new short writing series about paying attention to attention.

It's created, in part, from old journals and from recent reflections on how different my life has become as I've slowed down and practiced looking for depth over speed.

It's the kind of stuff I used to either not want to share or would start then lose interest after a post or two.

This will likely just run a few days, but we'll see. It's just an experiment for me this week, writing about the one thing in life with which I have the most experience: Attention.

Or sometimes, rather, the lack of it, and the accompanying embarrassment, gifts, humor and pain that goes along with it.

I'll try to keep it simple, but I won't worry about drifting off topic or chasing butterflies mid post. It's what I do best, after all.



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