If you structure your time to allow for plenty of unstructured time, you discover activities that might have gone undiscovered, from the mundane (putting clothespins in your hair to see how it feels) to the sublime (typing a lecture on how to be a spy).
(Or is a spy lecture mundane?)
(I guess that depends on whether you're a Spy Who Came in from the Cold kind of person, or a James Bond kind of person.)
I had lots more to say on this topic, with examples, like the day two kids came over and we spent the day outside in the sun painting murals, but I've been so busy maintaining my unstructured time...
Right now the Dream Festival is on in Kingston, and the whole fam has been going and enjoying performances that are non-narrative, slow-moving, "difficult", etc., the kind of stuff that kids seem to accept and understand and grown-ups tend to stay away from in order to watch Survival.
The dream fest is always in October at Deep Listening Space.
We know a lot of people who died in October.
Halloween is in October.
So for us, October is the month of dreams and nightmares, dying and remembering. I spend the whole month in a dream state, with the falling leaves and the encroaching dark and the smell of loam. I love it.
Unstructured time. Do you have enough of it, and do you remember to use some of it doing absolutely nothing?
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Well, that speaks to me. I tend to apply structures to any unstructured time that raises its head above ground level around here. I can do it well when on holiday (only true obsessives can't), and once in a while give myself permission when at home, but I spend far too little time doing absolutely nothing.
I shall make this a New Autumn's Resolution.
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