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Funnily enough today’s Mindful March prompt is:

‘Stay fully present while drinking your cup of tea or coffee.’

I say funnily enough because it’s one of the few times throughout the day I like to just sit by a window here in my apartment, sip my brew, and look out at the world. Taking in whatever is happening outside, ‘live’ as it were. Who needs TV when you have several squirrels who provide a series of antics to watch, or a flock of sparrows who love to flit about loudly chirping to one another and then, the secretive, occasional visitor to our little green space outside; a reclusive groundhog.

So to ask if I’m fully present, the answer is a resounding yes. I forget I’m even drinking a tea when engaged in hanging out to watch what the weather’s doing like today, where the wind is gale force, the trees are thrashing wildly against a steal grey sky, and the birds are hiding in the privacy hedge scolding the freezing rain. I don’t imagine they want to go foraging anymore than I wanted to go out today, to see the nurse for my blood test. 

But I’m sure they’re as present there, in their huddled warmth, hidden amid the foliage as I am sat here watching them. 

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