{"id":5794,"date":"2020-08-10T20:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2020-08-10T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T03:41:55","slug":"life-is-made-of-moments-victoria-bc-10-08-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"Life is Made of Moments \u2013 Victoria, BC \u2013 [10\/08\/2020]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just a moment
\nOne peculiar passing moment
\nMust it all be either \u201cless or more\u201d
\neither \u201cplain or grand\u201d
\nIs it always or? Is it never and?
\nThat\u2019s what woods are for
\nFor those moments in the woods<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to really know where to begin these days. There\u2019s so much to say, and yet at the same time there\u2019s so little.<\/p>\n

Every day people ask us questions, usually the same ones, always with our best interests at heart, but the truth is we simply don\u2019t have the answers yet. It\u2019s too soon to say whether or not there will even be an industry to go back to<\/em> let alone whether we will have jobs in it or if we would welcome them back. Just one foot in front of the other, just like everyone else.<\/p>\n

I do miss my job. Sometimes. In little odd flashes that I don\u2019t always expect. A song on the radio, a memory flashing through my mind. But I\u2019m also aware that I\u2019ve been away from it a few months now, and that\u2019s enough to start separating myself from the parts I know I don\u2019t<\/em> miss: the petty politics and the sense of separation, the loneliness and the long hours. But I miss my friends and my shipboard family and the whirlwind seeing of the world.<\/p>\n

But that said, I\u2019m not at all unhappy. Not anymore (I was, for a while, but I prefer not to focus on it). Life always takes bizarre turns, and it\u2019s impossible to see what\u2019s around the next corner. True, I\u2019m a little sad that we\u2019re not in Denmark where we were originally supposed to be this month. But\u2026the flips side of that coin is that I have a comfortable routine and people who care about me, I have a roof over my head and someone to come home to who knows how I take my tea and sits across the table from me while I ramble on about my day. I have more energy at the end of the day now than I ever really remember having before.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, I seem to have found my feet.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s in times like these that I\u2019ve learned to take joy in the little day to day things that are all too easy to miss. The sunshine filtering through the rose bush outside my window. A perfectly formed embroidery pattern. The taste of tea and coffee first thing in the morning. The way my Dad teases me at work. The smile on a little kid\u2019s face when I tell them a ghost story. Throwing a recipe together at the last minute and having it \u2013 mostly \u2013 turn out. Saturday afternoons with my mother. Watching my Dad fix Amras\u2019 bike pedal. Being home to wish people a happy birthday. Being able to have a lunch date with my best friend and know that I will be there for it.<\/em> Being able to say yes to dinner invitations. Walks by the water in the evening. Fresh picked, sun-warmed blackberries. Jokes about Canadian geese. Even a perfectly aimed archery shot in my current video game obsession.<\/p>\n

These are all things that\u2026I missed while I was away. And having them around, tangible and present, even the bad ones, even the ones that sting \u2013 makes everything feel better\u2026more\u2026alive somehow. Those little, day to day things that no one really thinks about because they\u2019re so seemingly unimportant.<\/p>\n

Right now? With the world we live in? Everything that brings even a moment of joy seems so very important.<\/p>\n

Find those moments.<\/p>\n

And when in doubt? Keep being kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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