My moment of Zen

Instead of focusing on the imminent end of my vacation, I chose–very explicitly–to enjoy the day as completely as possible.

This was made somewhat easy by the fact that this morning I was able to sleep in until I awoke naturallyI can count the number of times this has happened since I became a parent on the fingers of one hand., and then was able to stay in bed and spend an hour readingI believe this is the first time I’ve had this luxury at all since becoming a parent. before I had to get up and deal with the day.

And then, having the ultimate perfect weather day today also helped.

But perhaps most helpful of all was walking out onto the back deck and seeing this:

I planted that tree myself a number of years ago, and it barely blossomed the first couple of years. Before I headed out on my vacation it was not yet interesting in any way. Seeing it like that was a very pleasant shock, and might possibly have put me into a satori moment.

And, you know, the fact that my next vacation starts in four days is also helping. 🙂

Of course I have a schedule tomorrow that runs from 8:30AM until 11PM, so we’ll see how long my vacation inspired Zen calm lasts…