(Post by TR)
Last Thursday I woke up at 4:15am. Crazy, I know. I woke up with a very specific purpose, however; to do as much nothing and find as much nothing as I could that day. You’re probably thinking that I could have gotten up a little later to do nothing and find nothing, but I disagree…(cont’d below)
“The Schoolhouse”
…For some background on me, I tend toward being as productive as possible with every minute of my day. By productive, I mean tricking my brain into thinking that I’ve somehow not wasted any time that day, I guess, in a way, that I’ve ‘kept my nose to the grindstone’ and can go to bed feeling like I’ve accomplished something. I try to optimize everything to be done in the most efficient way possible in, and, to be honest, I think it’s hard for me to just relax sometimes – I mean just relax and do nothing, and enjoy it, and be OK with not working towards something every minute.
Anyhow, that said, I think I need to learn to be a little more OK with just ‘being’ and not always ‘doing.’ Maybe this has to do with truly finding my identity apart from what I do or what I accomplish, and being comfortable knowing that I am not defined by what I accomplish, believing that my identity and my worth are wrapped up in Christ.
Last Thursday I decided to do some ‘just being.’ I unplugged, forgot about accomplishing anything that day, and just went out in search of a whole lot of nothing.
And it was a lot of fun.
There’s a lot of nothing in the plains of
“No Class Today.”
“ThinkPiece.” ( I love this shot!)
“The Yellow Blues.”
“Slivers.”
“The wrong door?”
“The Right Door?”
The Photomobile…it gets me where I want to go ;)