Of course timing is everything!
Every moment only lasts as long as the next moment takes to arrive. And that is not long. Yet, if we only expect an opportunity to last momentarily, how can we be ready to embrace it when it arrives? Are we always just a little late to party?
In truth, our mind and brain (exclusive of each other, yet working in tandem) often intuitively anticipate moments before they manifest themselves in time and space. But we need to be clear minded and ready, eh? By clear minded he refers to a mind clear of cluttered emotions such as fear, guilt, or self loathing. Snap out of it!
One winter evening, in the early months of his marriage, he sat on a stool gazing out the window of the cabin observing the snowflakes in the porch light weave their paths toward earth. A bit memorized, he had forgotten that his woman had drawn a hot bath in the sparse and often chilly bathroom, an old claw foot as he remembers.
His invitation to join was scrambled by his concerns about an early dig out in the morning to make it to class on time. On top of this concern was a rapidly developing need to conduct a bodily bowl movement. Her soft humming was what woke him to the moment at hand. Yet he was currently considering heading out by the barn and squatting in the snow to relieve natures need to exit.
For some reason, and it surely had to do with the avoidance of a cold ass, he took the job into the bathroom where it belonged. By the time she opened her eyes he was sitting there porcelain supported, and causing odors that only a full barnyard would recognize.
She exited as quickly as the moment vanished.
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