{"id":2723,"date":"2020-02-16T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/02\/watch-the-world-turning\/"},"modified":"2020-02-16T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T12:30:00","slug":"watch-the-world-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/02\/watch-the-world-turning\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The World Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even members of the creative community can succumb to the prevailing sentiment that one must keep busy, though often little distinction is made between being busy and being creative. <\/p>\n

A recent piece in the NY TIMES \u201cIs Anyone Happy Anymore?\u201d was a reminder of the importance of taking time to pause, reflect on and be grateful for the moment \u2013 like the farmer, Michael, who\u2019s questioned by the author:<\/p>\n

Because Michael seemed to be working on the land all day every day, into the fall of darkness and beyond, and never complained, I once asked him if he ever took a holiday.<\/em>
\u201cA holiday?\u201d He looked at me like the innocent I was.<\/em>
\u201cI mean, what do you do to be happy?\u201d<\/em>
The question was a novelty to him and he considered it from all sides before answering.<\/em>
\u201cWhen I want a holiday,\u201d he said at last, \u201cI go over the road as far as the meadow. I go in there, take off my jacket, and lay down on it. I watch the world turning for a bit, with me still in it.\u201d<\/em>
He smiled then, and held me in his blue Atlantic eyes, full of the ordinary wisdom of a well-lived life, a wisdom that saw the many failings of the world but our still breathing and dreaming in it, and with a conclusive nod that defeated all arguments said, \u201cThat\u2019s happiness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Even members of the creative community can succumb to the prevailing sentiment that one must keep busy, though often little distinction is made between being busy and being creative. A recent piece in the NY TIMES \u201cIs Anyone Happy Anymore?\u201d was a reminder of the importance of taking time to pause, reflect on and be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}