Paying Attention

"I noticed tonight that the world has been turning, while I've been stuck here dithering around."                                                                                                                        

Keane

It's interesting how things change, when you are not looking...  Yesterday John and I went into the phone shop in Scarborough to investigate upgrading our Blackberry phones, which we have had for a couple of years.  I remember being totally amazed, when they were new, that we could receive e-mails and look at the internet, but in those two short years the developments in phone technology have been truly phenomenal.  We had no idea how much had changed, until we started to look...

Nature also produced the same miracle for me this week.  I've been co-training on the first module of the Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy Course up in Saltburn.  Leaving home at 7am each day to travel over the Moors, threading my way through the mist and between the sheep, is always a good way to start the day; and the return journey is a lovely way to wind down, watching the sunset colours spread across the sky.  Leaving home early and arriving back late, however, meant that I missed the developments taking place in my garden.  I was astonished, on Friday evening, to discover filmy petals of blossom adorning the plum tree, where only tight little green buds had been the last time I looked; and in the pond a beautiful, glutinous mass of spawn bore witness to the night-time activities of the frogs.  I felt as if Nature had moved on an installment without me.

What remarkable changes are wrought in our world, when we are not paying attention!  Take a look around at your own world, and notice what has been happening while your attention was elsewhere...