Friday, January 23, 2009
Location: Carson National Forest, Taos, New Mexico

It’s 7:55pm and I’m curled up in the van by candlelight with Moses at my feet. Today was a good day simply because I said so. Sometimes out here on the road I battle with the waiting game. I tend to spend quite a bit of time making contact and then waiting on interview subjects to be available. This is really the hardest part of the journey; allowing oneself to slow down and exercise patience. As I’ve said so many times before, it comes down to faith. Faith that everything is exactly where it needs to be, and that in time everything will be provided as needed.

However, walking the line between faith and action is still a balancing act. There are times like this one that I find myself waiting for interviews, without really knowing the content that is to be captured. Is it worth waiting for or should I cut loose and move onto the next location. Stay or go.

I guess a lot of it depends on the place. How well does a place fit combined with a willingness to let go of a western notion of time. I recently received a package from a good friend of mine up in Canada and within it her included a note that read, “Remember, time IS money.” That’s certainly true for me out here on the road, although I live frugally; it still takes money to drift from now/here to now/here.

Aside from money there is really no problem… except ego and its attachments to notions of ‘progress’. Today I was feeling down because I felt things weren’t happening quickly enough. I was sliding into a frustrated and depressed state so I decided to take the dog out to the park. It was there that I encountered a tree teaming with small birds chirping away merrily. I sat there in the sun on a bench watching Moses sniff and explore under the auditory extravaganza!

Animals don’t seem to worry about time, they don’t seem to be overly concerned with the past or the future. For them the sun is shining or it’s not, and all that exists is NOW.

That was a good book, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. You should read it!

peace,
d