random thoughts

I don't even know exactly what to write, but I want to keep writing. I'll let my fingers play on the keys until words make their way from my brain to my fingers, to this blog. :) It is a journey that's for sure--this thing we call life. Always new steps, new expectations, new bends and twists in the road, it's an adventure, that's for sure. And I think sometimes we need to stop and just be present in the middle of our lives. We need to stop and listen, stop and rest, stop and just be. I think it's so easy to forget in the pell mell of our lives. It's easy to let life carry us away and forget that we need to be present in each moment, in every moment. We only get one life. How much will we make of it?

If you think about it, our whole culture is geared towards this fast past, mcdonaldization of our lives. Everything is fast-fast food, carpool lanes, airplane flights, getting us from one place to the next within hours. It's crazy, but it's so hard not to succumb to it. It's so hard to go against the culture, to be counter-intuitive and subversive. How can we fight it? Maybe just slowing down and taking it one step at a time. Thinking about how we effect others ecologically (incidentally, you can find out your own carbon footprint to find out how much you impact our planet by completing a simple quiz on the web), thinking about how we affect others emotionally, spiritually, mentally--it's a world of thoughts that we must enter in and choose what to think, choose how we act, choose to go against the grain or submit to it. It's an adventure....may we live it to its fullest.