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Time and the Time Change

30 Day Blogging Challenge

PROMPT March 8th
For most of the world, today is “Spring Forward,” when clocks are set an hour ahead. In your entry today, write about time and how you make the most of it. What is worthy of spending your time on? What is not? In your opinion, what do people spend too much time on these days?

Day light savings time where we spring ahead... it is just after 6 pm and I am ready to crawl into bed and call it a day. I love that today has been sunny and I have enjoyed the day, but I am now feeling a little queasy and just want to close my eyes for an hour or two. I can't. I am out and about. Taking advantage of the lovely day. It is still a bit chilly in the wind, but at 8 degrees Celsius I am only too happy to hang out outside as much as I can getting some real vitamin D for a change. Tomorrow is supposed to be double digits. I might just have to ditch my winter boots for the day.

Today is Sunday. I have spent my day on a bit of a spiritual journey. I started my day with a great session of Sahaja Yoga with a group that meets on the internet using the Zoom app. It was a very cleansing session and I felt really good for having made myself get up to take part. This afternoon I went to a session discussing Karma and a bit about reincarnation. The group is part of the Eckanan. I listened and stayed open to the experience. Karma interests me. I am not so sure what to make about the idea of reincarnation. After the discussion, there was a session of singing Hu (pronounced hue). It was a bit weird, but calming.

After saying goodbye to the small group, I moved my car further downtown and then took a walk to the Starbucks for lunch. But before I went in there, I stopped in to browse the local independent bookstore - Words Worth Books. I bought a magazine and a recipe book that was on the clearance table.

Afterward I took a walk around just enjoying the sun. There are a lot of people just walking around down here today. It is kinda nice. Spring really does feel like it is coming. After Friday morning's heavy rush hour snowfall, today was a blessing.

I am now enjoying some mint tea to help settle my tummy. I'm at a local cafe I love - Cafe 1842 in the Huether Hotel. A great place to people watch and get some writing done. This is where I come on Monday nights to meet some writing friends. We chat and write together. It is a great way to start off the week.

I feel blessed to have this time to just walk and explore and write out and about. I do it quite a bit. I find getting out of the house helps me get to work. At home, there are too many distractions to get the writing done I need to do. I have 2 blogs to do - this one and a poetry blog, then I have to work on my story edits for a story I have accepted to an anthology.

As for things I'd rather not spend time doing... that would be cleaning. I know it needs to be done and I do it, but I make sure to block out time and then reward myself with something I do want to do afterward - like read or write or watch some TV.

As the weather improves I will get out walking more. That is my kind of exercise. I have no time to waste going to the gym.

Tomorrow I am expecting my autism class to be on the more chaotic side. Many of my students are time sensitive and the time change is hard on them. That added together with the full moon tomorrow and it will definitely be an 'all hands on deck' kind of day.