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Leisure……. What does this mean?

Reading.  Brainpickings.com  Maria Popova.    you can google it.  Already she has moved on,  but if you type Leisure in the search box you will come to her last post about Josef Pieper's writings on 

Leisure

Leisure.  a condition of the soul.

"leisure as a 'non activity'…an inner absence of preoccupation, a calm, an  ability to let things go, to be quiet.

In leisure, there is….something of the serenity of   "not-being-able-to-grasp",  of the recognition of the mysterious character of the world, and the confidence of blind faith, which can let things go as they will"

 

What if?

Last Wednesday,  when there was a day of not needing to go anywhere,  a day of just Open ness,  and that morning,  i was Out,  scrubbing the bucks' water tubs,  there was an inkling of this.  Of  leisure.  It was so elegant and soft and elegant.  Moments of it.  Elegant and Soft.

i am looking.  Trying to understand.

 

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Walnuts on the stove,  steeping.  stewing.

 

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can't get the pic right,  but there is a saddening of the original Bright

 

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and on the right,  even a little more,  just subtle changes

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10 responses to “Leisure……. What does this mean?”

  1. Patricia Spangler Avatar
    Patricia Spangler

    sacred. those moments.

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  2. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    ah do you remember the “It’s a Small World” Disneyland circa the 1960’s era dream of a leisure society where the machines would do all the work and the people would have fun studying abstract concepts, dancing, writing poetry, making art and beautiful gardens? well it’s happening but the people who own the machines are not being very generous with the profits!

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  3. .cynthia Avatar
    .cynthia

    ” moments of it …elegant and soft”…exactly..and so unbelievably full of refreshment …sometimes out of proportion with the time and space it actually fills but so full of gifts
    gentle day grace and many such moments cynthia

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  4. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Leisure has been on my mind…..I am going to be traveling the next 3 weeks visiting family and friends. I do not have a smart phone and have made up my mind that if this time is to be a time of leisure….a time away…then my tablet will be staying home. Grace I will miss our daily visits along with the wonderful comments from all you ladies. Stay well everyone……BLESSINGS!

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    yes. they stand distinct in my mind, in my Heart…they were
    small, but stellar.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    no…i have been such an anti disney. We took the kids to
    disney world when Jenny was maybe 3 and my son Jon a newborn and
    there was that ride, the It’s a Small World ride of teacups
    and the song, the sound of it was nauseating to me…it was
    to visit their grandfather
    i remember my breast milk just flowing unchecked. My shirt was
    soaked and that music blinking blinking blinking along.
    Glad i survived it.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    so, SO, out of proportion, YES, this is what i’m looking at
    how can i let it Come? even for a moment. just a moment.
    Let it GLOW.
    gentle day back and i am so glad
    you are here…oh, Love to you

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  8. grace Avatar
    grace

    so yes….GO! and go alone. Just yourself. yes. and attend
    to it, the leisure of it and maybe tell us when you return…
    XOXOXO AND BLESSINGS BACK AND BON VOYAGE AND HURRY HOME AND
    YAY!!!!! AND EVERYTHING………..

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    I was 9 years old when I saw “It’s a Small World” at the New York World’s Fair & although I felt it was a twee plastic fantasy of an idea even back then I loved the concept of having plenty of time and resources for all the people of the world, what happened to the idea of providing a university education to at least one person in every village on our planet?

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  10. grace Avatar
    grace

    nothing like this is going to Happen. The Majority live in
    a blah illusion of nothingness.
    if anything is going to happen it will be because of oh so small
    intention in an oh so small fragment of Life.

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