Knowing Where Are You vs. Being Where You Are

Most of us are pretty fortunate: we know where we are. Occasionally toddlers have frightening experiences in malls when they get separated from their parents or joggers wander off the well worn path and find much of the desert looks the same.  But most of the time, most of us know where we are. In fact with satnav, GPS and smart phones we we are better equipped with such data than a SWAT team of just a few years ago.

But being where we are, that's another story. In a world of distraction, 'the future is brighter', it's sometimes difficult to just 'be'. To be where you are. In the conversation, in the game of lego, pressing out the weights with focus and concentration at the gym, baking amazing bread, crafting a paragraph, watching the flight of a rare bird and realising it's along way to another planet where you can do that.

Saturdays have many purposes but surely one is to re-engage with the skill of simply being where we are before we lose it in another roller-coaster week.