{"id":12063,"date":"2017-07-11T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2017-07-11T09:11:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:11:25","slug":"linger-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2017\/07\/11\/linger-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Linger Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Eucalyptus-2-1300\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Eucalyptus 2<\/em>, Oil on Paper, 15″x21,” inspired by a cluster of dead leaves lying on the deck.<\/h6>\n

One of the commenters on the last Blank Slate offered something worth pondering. My title was Hey, Look<\/em>; Joan responded with Hey, Linger<\/em>. She exampled with her insight that if she gave a person more time in conversation they came more out of themselves, expressed more and (though she didn’t say this) probably appreciated her more.<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking this is a good word for us in many ways.<\/p>\n

Time, Einstein said, is relative. It goes fast or slow, depending. Sometimes fast is good; other times slow is better.<\/p>\n

Like in romance. Never good if it’s rushed.<\/p>\n

A friend once told me that what a woman wanted is time. \u201cTime in what?\u201d I asked her. \u201cEverything,\u201d she said. Being a woman I expect she knew.<\/p>\n

I suppose it can be taken to the extreme. I just watched a documentary, 180 Days on Lake Bical<\/em>. That’s in Russia, the largest body of fresh water in the world. When it freezes over the ice is two feet thick. He was there winter through summer, living out of a trappers cabin, by himself, his provisions, his books, his dogs, and a whole lot of time. He had much to say about that most of all. On an earlier adventure he’d traveled the length of Eurasia where he’d seen a lot in a hurry. On this one he saw less more. It changed him.<\/p>\n

All good things are worth the pondering.<\/p>\n

Any book worth reading is worth reading twice. Same with a movie. Or how about just a paragraph.<\/p>\n

Here’s the word for it all: Absorb.<\/p>\n

Another: Gaze.<\/p>\n

Another: Don’t rush.<\/p>\n

Jesus said, \u201cCould you not wait with me one hour?\u201d<\/p>\n

Ah, but the spirit is weak. How many moments have passed we could have relished better? Maybe we can return. Happily there will be more. More and more and more.<\/p>\n

Linger longer . . . you’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a reminder that time is relative. We can slow it down, and get more out of it when we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12077,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}