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"This is the ineffable,the mundane, the wondrous."
When life seems (is) hellish it is those little elapses of 'normal' time where you feel yourself unexpectedly transported to a tiny, beautiful elsewhere that doesn't care about your problems yet seems to absolve them all, just for that minute, sublime moment. You capture that so succinctly here.
Your post was wonderfully written and as others have suggested, relatable. But the concluding note was transformational. As life in late middle-age offers ever-greater challenge to the sense of ease and joy I once took for granted, I find myself making a practice of actively seeking out such moments as you describe. It works,mostly. I guess it's subjective, but I still find myself regularly blown away by what magic I can find, in the everyday and seemingly prosaic.
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