When It’s Time to Stop Time

Week 7

When It’s Time to Stop Time

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1. Imagine the yesteryear scene in a small town, a suburb or neighborhood in a larger city. How does it feel?

2. This is what centennial celebrations do for 10 days or so and prices are rolled back 100 years.

3. I’m thinking it might be fun to paint a Norman Rockwell picture in my own mind.

4. I’ll paint the playground at Longfellow school—that yellow brick building that still stands—playing kickball before the 8:50 am bell.

5. Slow down is what I hear. Find the time to not do. Stop doing and clear clutter.

6. We can’t go back, but we can go in, or, perhaps, out. Mere things can pass into the background.

7. Stop! Where are you needed? Stop time. Be there, where you’re needed. So productive…

Recess

Let’s make believe

today—

the two main streets

of the downtown

that cross each other

and run a half-mile each

have been closed

to car traffic

and thrown open

by the city fathers

for play-day.

It’s a mild Sunday afternoon,

people strolling and milling

with no cause—

some with their kids—

stopping for an ice cream

or glass of wine,

looking in store windows,

skirting an open fire hydrant

for the rowdy, pausing

for the bocci ball

played at a corner patch,

sitting on benches,

saying hello, smiling,

running into old friends,

making new ones.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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