Sublime

We’ll begin to notice that busyness is not the kind of fullness that can connect us to something bigger than us. Rather, busyness asks us to run fast, not in order to move forward but to keep from falling behind.

Also hardly to be discerned as an aberration was all that repertoire of gossip, secrecy and communal policing, plus the rules of what was allowed and not allowed that featured heavily in this place.

Busyness can distract us from our true goals. When we are so focused on keeping everyone else happy, preoccupied with all the things we think we need to do, we sacrifice memories we could have created, we lose childlike joy, and we halt flow. Busyness can blind us to small joys in open parts of the day: a butterfly drifting down the street, the ful