Start #3: Writer's Block Wednesdays

I decided last week when looking at Taste of Milk and Honey's blog invitation to participate in her Writer's Block Wednesdays, that I would join in the fun in hopes to energize that creative flow within me.  Last Wednesday's word was "drink".  I thought and thought about this one, and started many versions over and over.  Deciding that I wasn't ready to tackle all the dark thoughts this one word conjured for me, I put it aside, shelved it in my mind for a few days. 

I've been reading one section a night of Jon Kabat-Zinn's Wherever You Go There You Are to help me in my efforts to bring meditation, awareness, peacefulness, and mindfulness into my life.  I've read this book once before and it helped me calm my mind at a time of transition from Phoenix to Flagstaff, from living single to living with Andy, and it helped me tremendously.  Now just seemed like the right time to pick this one up again.

I came upon this quote in Kabat Zinn's book on Sunday night.  Although I didn't write it myself, it was the most beautiful use of "drink" so wanted to share in place of my own writing for last Wednesday's word:

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.  I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.  Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.  I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.

                                                                                                    Thoreau, Walden

Thank you Tina for inspiring me.  I'm looking forward to Wednesdays!