{"id":1276,"date":"2008-01-21T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2008-01-21T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:39:00","slug":"let-her-step-to-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2008\/01\/21\/let-her-step-to-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"let her step to the music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this image in my mind for days.  You know when you were a kid when you&#8217;d get those cheap woven tubes as party favors&#8211;the ones where you put a finger in each end and pull and then your fingers were stuck.  But if you pushed your fingers together then you could pull them out?<\/p>\n<p>Those toys are on my mind because I keep imagining time like one of those tubes.  I no longer feel as though time is a measured, even march of the clock hands.  Rather, time tends to expand and contract given the various pressures on my life.  For example, it still hasn&#8217;t sunk in that the holidays are done and over with.  Christmas break just flew by, all of my goals and intentions fading in the swirl of busy-ness.  Likewise, this month is one day after another of full &#8216;to-do&#8217; lists, of places to be, of many social obligations.<\/p>\n<p>But I am not complaining that time is flying too fast.<\/p>\n<p>What I am saying is how hard it is to keep track of reality when things are busy.  I feel a bit like my life is pulled between the two fingers of time, stretched thin.  In that tension I tend to focus on what is most pressing, moving from one task to another, methodically meeting deadlines.  Time going so fast that last month and yesterday seem equally distant&#8211;my mind having difficulty parsing time accurately.  So say someone asks what I did last weekend, I&#8217;m likely to reply with what I did a month ago, not realizing the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m in the middle of a time warp, I continue blogging in fits and spurts.  After some intense hours of academic writing or meetings or whatever, I spend a few moments spewing out a few thoughts on the page.  It&#8217;s a bubble of space where time stands still.  I am present.  Just me and my keyboard.  Not ever sure if it&#8217;s been an hour or a minute.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If a woman does not keep pace with her companions,<br \/>perhaps it is because she hears a different drummer.<br \/>Let her step to the music which she hears,<br \/>however measured or far away.<br \/>~ adapted from Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this image in my mind for days. 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