Simplistic Interlude

I like simple, streamlined, and uncomplicated lately. I’m particularly attracted to things that work smoothly. Minimalist is a word that comes to mind.

I think that appreciating minimalism brings about these moments of clarity because you become more focused on the basic. You take these interludes that orient you to these really huge moments in life that we experience every day but that would normally fly by us because we would be so intense with the business, with the complex.

While Karen was away teaching her night class at the end of the week, I was home with our daughter, who had spent most of her day much, much fussier than usual. The night was complicated, as only a night with a crying baby and a new dad attempting to decipher what’s wrong with said crying baby in order to fix it, can be. When all was said and done, though, and she had finally quieted down and become content, I looked down at her while I was rocking her to sleep and she was looking up at me, making eye contact in a way that communicated that she completely trusted me to take care of her, to place her welfare before my own, to not let her down.

That was a such a simple moment. And it was a moment of earth-shattering clarity. The sort of moment that you don’t walk away from the same as before you experienced it.

I’m so glad that I was paying attention.

I hope your weekend is full of enough pauses to appreciate the moments that you’ll experience.