Saturday at the end of October 2020! Phew\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n I can see myself blinking again and writing to you a Merry Christmas email. Haha<\/span><\/p>\n This reminds me of the time when my son, Evan, was 12 and sitting in my lap. I said to him,\u00a0\u201cIt seems like I blinked and you grew from a tiny little baby into a beautiful big boy.\u201d<\/em> He looked at me, smiled, and said smartly,\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t blink, Mama.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I got curious. I wondered if scientists have come up with any new explanations about time-bending (we experience time as both dragging and flying). <\/span><\/p>\n When I Googled it, I found several scientific articles that suggest that when our brain is engaged in the activity, time contracts…and in boredom, it expands. Brain and body functions affect our perception of the duration of certain events and activities.<\/span><\/p>\n In plain words, time flies when you are having fun\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n I also read about how memories play a big part in the way we perceive time.<\/span><\/p>\n Memories are made when we experience something significant – and\u00a0the more we are present in those moments, the\u00a0more vividly we will remember them<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n These memories \u201cact like signposts, punctuating periods of time in our life and giving it a sense of duration.\u201d (<\/span>\u201cWhy does time fly … or not? It’s all in your mind\u201d By Anna Salleh, posted on<\/span>\u00a0ABC Science<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n When we have a lot of memories behind us, we have the sense of a long life behind us.<\/span><\/p>\n But also, I\u2019m sure you can think of a time when you were talking to a friend, remembering fun times you had, and you \u2018lost sense of time.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Work, routines, stress and worry about the future can rob us of staying present and this can make time \u2018disappear.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The solution?<\/span><\/p>\n Mindfulness: Breaks during which we \u2018check-in with ourselves\u2019 and \u2018slow down to smell the roses.\u2019 (Our languages are full of phrases that remind us of living our time mindfully.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been stuck in the time-sucking vortex of a creative process where everything else disappears and I don\u2019t hear kids calling me, I miss my mother\u2019s messages (and then she calls in a panic to check if all is well), and I only emerge when my back and my neck remind me I hadn\u2019t stood up in several hours.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been studying my diaries and writing my memoir. I\u2019m working with a great writing coach Tisha Morris and I\u2019m LOVING it!!! It\u2019s a LOT of work, but it\u2019s very rewarding\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Tisha is also going to be my literary agent\u00a0and we agreed I\u2019d have the first draft done by November 9th. I still have 13 chapters – about the last fifteen years of my life – to write.<\/span><\/p>\n On that note, I\u2019ll mindfully finish this email \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n In our amazing book-study group, we discussed one of the stories in (un)Broken:\u00a0about loneliness and giving our time to someone who is just too scared to be alone during their dark night.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n One of the ladies in the group mentioned the poem by Gwendolyn Brooks\u00a0\u201cAloneness\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Here is a part I want to offer you as a short reflection. You can read the full poem<\/span>\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes I think it\u2019s not possible to be alone.<\/span> I love singing<\/span>\u00a0this Glen Campbell cover with David<\/a>. It doesn\u2019t have much to do with time or aloneness, but I think it\u2019s a good reminder of what we can all do more of when times get tough\u00a0(See? How can \u2018time\u2019 – which is a perceived concept, be \u2018tough\u2019 LOL)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n We only did a part of the song here, but you can catch us perform live on our weekly show over on my YouTube channel:<\/span>\u00a0TajciTV<\/a>.<\/p>\nStory<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
\n
You are with you.<\/span>
And pulse and nature keep you company.<\/span>
The little minutes are there,<\/span>
Building into hours<\/span>
The minutes that are bricks<\/span>
Of days and years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nMusic<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/tatianacameron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/unnamed-5.jpg\")
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wakinguprevolution.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Copy-of-Untitled-300x8.png\")
<\/span><\/h2>\n