Stranger Than Most

by SUSAN LAUTZ

Some of the people who actually read this column (and I’m talking to YOU) will see this week’s headline and groan, “Not another article about mindfulness! My mind is full enough!” And they will quickly click on another link. But NO! Pay attention. I said mind-LESS-ness. As in drifting along, empty-headed, not a care in the world. This is the state I aspire to, but not in the sense of stumbling around aimlessly. No, I want to be paying attention, full attention, to what is right in front of me. Letting go of the past, forgetting about the future. Just doing and being in THIS time, fully. No beeping phones, no buzzing TV. All I want to hear is wind and birdsong.

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