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I went to see one of my psychics this past Saturday. Among other things she told me, “Ursula, things are really looking good for you and your husband in the near future. Life’s about to kick into high gear, and go superfast. The pace is going to really pick up and in two years you are going to look back and wonder where the time went.” Well, since I’m looking back on the previous week wondering what happened to it, and where the time that supposedly is allotted for a week went, because I felt shortchanged, I was a little rattled. Then, the reading goes on to other things, ultimately concludes, and I go outside, where my husband is waiting placidly on a wicker bench watching traffic in a sleepy upstate NY town amble by. “So,” he says in that easy going way he has, “anything interesting?” I sit down heavily beside him. “Life’s about to kick into high gear, and go super fast for the next two years.” He nods, his expression inscrutable as he considers this tidbit from the spirit world. Then he gets this tight frown and shakes his head. “Great, now I’m going to need to start doing Meth to keep up with my life.”

Now, dh is not a druggie. He’s as straight an arrow as they come. But he’s onto something. I have to say, our life’s been running at breakneck pace, so I am left wondering: what exactly will super fast look like in comparison, and how we will muster up more speed to get with the new program? And I bet I am not the only person amongst us who is wondering that. Everyone, it seems, is busy to the point of distraction. I think I’m noticing this now because it’s June, and in a few short weeks, one half of 2009 shall be gone. Vanished into the sunset of the past. The year always starts off with goals and promise for many, but I find myself more contemplative come mid-year. What has transpired so far? Where have I come with my life and goals? Where do I seem to be heading? Do I need a course correction, or am I good to go, at least for another few months? And if I need a course correction, am I in a position to make that correction, or need I wait for a better time?

When you run at full tilt boogie twenty four seven, it’s hard to draw yourself up to a stop for a moment, and re-engage with what’s important to you, as a person, and determine if you’re able to make some of that important stuff happen. I think more often than not, we find ourselves getting caught in the drift, and we’re so darned busy we can’t seem to even see that we’ve let go of the truly important, for the things that seemed to scream the loudest, or dominate our list of ‘must do’.

When I used to do Tarot readings in my metaphysical shop, I would often have people with readings where the clear message from spirit was this: “Stop letting everyone else’s priorities become your own. That angst you feel is what happens when your own needs go unmet, and your own dreams and desires take a back seat to everything and everyone else who thinks they own a piece of you. Take back your time. Even if you need to do it in increments.” I think of this now, and I think, too, about a life a friend of mine is trying to create for herself. She calls it La Dolce Vida, the Sweet Life, where there is time to visit a farmer’s market, have tea with a friend, spend moments of time on things of great personal value, set goals and reach them with small, measured, well paced steps, as opposed to jumping on the hamster wheel and spinning till you burn.

So now, with June up and running, I put this out to you, reader, a challenge if you will. Stop the busy, the doing, the race into oblivion, for just ten minutes. Go somewhere quiet: a garden, a park, a bathroom where you can lock out the kids. Give yourself those precious moments to be, to reflect, to touch base again with your own internal agenda, regardless of all the demands that compete for your all too limited time. Assess where you’ve come, and re-plot the course if necessary. Then, every now and again, steal away for another breather. Give yourself a few minutes of La Dolce Vida, and let the second half of the year bloom to life. Give yourself the break you know you deserve, and enjoy.

As for myself, I am taking my few moments, for certain, as I ready to complete the next leg in my journey as an author. No rest for the wicked, they say, but I’ll get a few in before the fates catch me and drag me back to the land of the Immortals and the games of the Eternity Covenant.

Ursula
www.UrsulaBauer.com