{"id":2933,"date":"2017-05-29T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2017-05-29T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T16:40:44","slug":"in-the-moment-at-9-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Before Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Friday morning before Memorial Day Weekend. A light rain is falling. Bombadill hopes it will alleviate the pollen-driven allergies that have been plaguing him the past few weeks. <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">He walks to the train thinking of his latest up coming trial. Bombadill wishes he didn&#8217;t schedule the trial a few days after the long weekend but he had no choice: His client is being held in jail so the trial had to scheduled as soon as possible. He thinks about Davis, his old-school mentor, who told him more than once: <em>Never forget your job is to get people out of jail.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The platform is sparsely populated with fellow commuters and he attributes that to it being the eve of a long weekend. Bombadill is partly correct. It is also the 9 AM train. He is taking the late train because he slept poorly the night before.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In a watery-eye, clogged-nose frame of mind, he becomes aware of the passing of time.\u00a0 He looks at his watch. For that moment, in the rain, on the train platform, standing next to a young woman with a rubber duck themed umbrella, he is acutely aware he lives in the moment. \u00a0 He looks at his smart phone and the date says May 26<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 <em>May is such a beautiful month<\/em>. He wishes he could hold onto May. For that matter, he wishes he could hold onto 2017;\u00a0 a year\u00a0 that seemed so\u00a0 strange and novel and now is approaching the half way mark.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> He resists calling his current state of\u00a0 in-the-moment <em>mindfulness<\/em>. He hates pop-science catch phrases like that. What he realizes is that he is actually getting better at <em>living<\/em>.\u00a0 No longer preoccupied with regrets, nor concerns for the future, he is proficient now at living each day, simply for each day. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">His cat and dog are proud of him!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>copyright 2017 Christopher Donahue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the Friday morning before Memorial Day Weekend. A light rain is falling. Bombadill hopes it will alleviate the pollen-driven allergies that have been plaguing him the past few weeks. He walks to the train thinking of his latest up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/?p=2933\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherdonahue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}