Forgetting About Time by Remembering Time
And the rain, it continues: flooding around the area – though it seems we were fortunate enough to miss out on that particular adventure.
I’ve written before about my desire to forget about time, of my envy for those who can simply – sans chemical enhancement – “turn off their mind, relax, and float downstream,” as John Lennon says, losing themselves in the work before them, losing a day, a night, in its thrall.
Revisiting that still-unsourced though really real, I’m really sure, remark by Fay Wray about Erich Von Stroheim:
“Time was his, he owned it…He used it as it should be used by an artist: He ignored it.”
Finding that the best way – for me – to ignore it, time, is by the use of timers (currently using MultiTimer): let the timers keep track of time (though that I feel a need to keep track of it is, perhaps, a subject for further examination) so that I might choose one bit to focus on (Lamott’s “short assignments”) for one of six-to-eight 30-minute daily work sessions in a variant on the Pomodoro technique, modified to an internal clock set by my meditation practice.
Been utilizing this method for a couple of weeks now and, though modifications and tweaks continue, I’ve found it to be the most promising means of focus-wrangling (not strangling) for me.
To work.
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