The Message Project : Slow Moments, Noticing Things How is it so easy to get caught up in life? Not the big picture stuff like careers, or being a parent, or partner, but the day-to-day stuff. The endless running around, chasing your tail picking up kids, dropping off something to the post office, paying a bill. The boring bits. The stressful bits. The routine and mundane bits. Days turn into weeks and months and before you know it it's September when you SWEAR that it was just March. I'm always busy. Always. I just don't allow myself to sit still and be. If I sit, I look at the table and see at that angle just how much dust has collected on it. Or the crumbs on the floor. Or make myself feel guilty that I should be tending to those weeds that are always in the garden, needing pulling. I'm my own worst enemy. I drive myself crazy, I really do. I'm trying, day in, day out to slow down. Not all together. No, that would just drive me insane, but in moments. Just to be. To stop. To enjoy. I force myself to take these moments, be in them, drink them in. Remember them. Photos help. Looking at them through a lens makes you stop. Capture the light. Snap the moment. Recording the simple beauty of every day moments that pass us by each and every day. The dark caramel colour of my first coffee of the day