(thanks to Sheryl for this photo of the bench at Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia)
So, why put a bench on a bridge? Aren’t you supposed to be moving on to the other side instead of sitting?
Well, maybe that’s the point. Maybe it’s that time you take to sit and realized you are moving on.
Here it is a week since we turned the New Year, and wasn’t that a great transition? A celebration of the past year, a toast to the future and maybe a kiss in the now of the moment.
But did you even give that transition a thought this morning when you got up? You have already moved on, right?
It’s easy to take those reflective moments at important crossroad times, say, New Year’s Eve, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, births, marriages, job changes, house changes.
Especially deaths.
But every day is a moving on day, really, don’t you see? And every transition during the day gives you an opportunity to stop for a brief moment, think about what just happened (even if it was talking out the trash) and feel alive. Before you move on.
So, find a bench, a quiet spot, a moment in the empty space while sitting at a red light and enjoy the experience you just had.
Then move on down the path.
That’s my bench talk for today. Have a glorious one where ever you go.
SKATE ON!
Darla