{"id":1252,"date":"2011-12-16T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2011-12-16T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T14:00:36","slug":"looking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?p=1252","title":{"rendered":"Looking Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is my first day ‘off’ in 8 days. Frantic, grueling days of holiday retail. By the evening, I arrive home exhausted and wound up like a ‘Chatty-Cathy’\u00a0\"\"<\/a>with a stuck string. Even after a glass of red, the reel of the day still whirrs through my head keeping me from my longed-for slumber.<\/p>\n

I marvel at people — including a few of my colleagues — who work more than one job and routinely put in 50 to 60 hours a week or more, sometimes 7 days a week. And I’m grateful that other than this time of year, I don’t have to. I really enjoy the constant buzzing of people around books — just not for 8 days straight. Being ‘on’ and rushed does not make for good living — at least not the kind of living I’m interested in.<\/p>\n

But thanks to my dog, I discovered a quick-fix. \u00a0A simple thing to do, almost like an instant-meditation. When Tetley first scratched at the door insisting he needed to go out, I complained a bit but pulled on a jacket, clicked on his leash and went out into the night. \"\"<\/a>\u00a0The moon was almost full and spectacular in the night sky. I looked up and kept looking up. Just that – looking up – the beat of my heart slowed. I feel this any time I look up – to gaze at trees, a bird soaring across the sky, the clouds. \u00a0Such a simple thing – looking up<\/em> – calms and inspires me to breathe deeply.\u00a0Perhaps it’s the reminder of things greater than myself?<\/p>\n

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