Photo from Ed Bernard Realty I have been almost completely away from the blog for much of the past two weeks. My mom was visiting, there was a brief trip back to the office, and then I went to SAW.
It is hard in some ways to put into words my thoughts from SAW. I met a lot of new people, made friends (or at least acquaintances) from all over the world, knit a ton and learned many things.
More importantly I took a step back. My normal life is very frenetic. I wake up early, shove something into nearly every corner of the day (right now that includes Plants v. Zombies), and have the weekend completely scheduled by Tuesday. It's an exhausting way to live. Normally I spend a lot of time thinking about the soon to be future. There is no time for being in the now, because the now is only the time when I'm planning things to come. I don't always feel very engaged, because I am often looking at what I'm doing and what I will be doing from a lense outside of myself. Thinking about how others will perceive what I am doing. It gets in the way of a lot of potentially great interactions.
At SAW there was only the now. Things were just scheduled enough that the structure left you space to just be. It was incredibly relaxing to let go of all the daily plannings and to live in the moment. I woke up just as early as normal and went to bed slightly later, and throughout the entire trip felt relaxed and calm. It was wonderful.
No thoughts on classes yet. I have photos yet to take and photos to pull from the camera. I also have a class I took from Gather Here that I want to talk about (in short, it was awesome!). Life has already sped up to its previous level, but I'm hoping to incorporate a bit of the Squam experience into my everyday life.
