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Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie. ~Henry David Thoreau
I can relate to this quote, except it is winter and the snow is moving in. We are supposed to have a winter blast the next couple days. Lots of snowing and blowing. But that does not keep me from my appointed rounds. In fact, it helps.
My daydreaming. Some folks call it that.
While I am working mind you, lest you should think unworthy of me. I work off and on all day, 6 days a week. Even my fun is work. And my work is fun. Mostly.
Sometimes. It depends on which day it is. I have to be centered and able to keep my focus. As Steven Wright said..."I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. 
But when I am on my game, I don't focus on things that I go through during the course of a day. If I did, I might as well just give up now. Frustration, delays, people, kids, customers, you name it all aiming at me, trying to knock me off my game.
No sir....I try to keep focused on things that really matter. I keep a pair of Eternal Spectacles nearby at all times, or I at least try to. And I put them on as often as I can. I find that the more I wear them, the easier it is to tell when they have come off.
They change everything for me. I see everyone, and everything in a whole different light as soon as they go on. And they seem to put things back into perspective. I am not sure how they end up coming off.... If it were up to me, I would keep 'em on on the time. But somehow, during the course of day to day living, they end up back on the end table of my life. I am weak that way. But getting much better at realizing when I am blind.
They allow me to meditate while I am about my day. On things that are not things. Some folks think the object of meditation is to empty the mind. More power to 'em. I happen to believe it works just as well to fill the mind with worthy things.
I run a scripture, or a quote, or an idea through my mind, and roll it around, and chew on it, like a sheep chewing it's cud. Extracting nourishment from that thought. It brings me a peace and an assurance that all is well with the eternal aspects of life. Of my life. Sometimes those concepts are allowed it to grow, bloom, become something more than they were when I first entertained them.
And so the little things in life that can be so distracting, even destructive, become small and unimportant. And the Truth becomes alive.
Peace....don't leave home without it. 
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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