Comments on: Present Tense. With Kelly Diels.

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tense - StartTags.com — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:53:48 +0000

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By: Kelly Diels

Kelly Diels — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:10:36 +0000

@Kristen – mwah! so glad to meet you too. Your gentle point – that being mindful of the need to be present is a manner of being present – is just right.

@Aidan – you're so cute and clever

@BigLittleWolf Lindsey sent me a quote that says the same thing as that speech from Before Sunrise, only better and more economically:

Someone's boring me. I think it's me. – Dylan Thomas

PS thank you!
PPS Paris, you say? Maybe I've found my people!

@Sarah thank you. YES YES YES. Too bad, but too true, yes?

@becca I relate. I completely relate. And thank you.

@Ronna. Do you EVER run out superlatives? I swear, you keep my shot-up self esteem afloat. MWAH.

By: Ronna Detrick

Ronna Detrick — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:39:07 +0000

More of you.

More of Kelly.

Nirvana, heaven, total bliss, perfection, and almost too much goodness and beauty to hold in one place...

Stunning, Lindsey. Stunning, Kelly.

Thank you.

By: becca

becca — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:17:38 +0000

I so look forward to reading more on this since it's something I so often grapple with. How to be present. How to enjoy what's in front of me. I also in no way am able to meditate. My mind cannot shut off or find quiet. Ever.

The times that I am able to stop and think about living in the moment, I am so grateful that I did. Tonight for instance, I had both my kids, freshly bathed, in their pajamas on my lap in a chair. They were both hysterically giggling as I read them a silly story. I stopped. I closed my eyes and I said the date to myself and said, "remember this". Those times escape and then are gone... I need to try to have at least one of those moments a day.

I'm glad to have been introduced to Kelly's blog. And I will continue to love reading yours!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:10:27 +0000

5. Has having children changed how you think about the effort to be present?

Yes. Definitely. It has also engendered in me a paradoxical, pathological need to escape.

Love this. Because Yes. Just. Yes. In every way.

I love this idea. Keep going with it. We all need a little more present tense.

So let me say I am here. Hello.

By: BigLittleWolf

BigLittleWolf — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:18 +0000

This is a completely wonderful discovery. Thank you, Lindsey.

And I'm with Kelly on Ethan Hawke (hysterical) and, um... yes, that's a no to meditation. Can't. Never could. Doesn't work.

And also, um, yes. Sex. And that's a fully socially appropriate response if you're in France.

(Hello, Paris?)

WONDERFUL interview. Great questions. Such thoughtful, poignant, and genuine responses.

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Aidan Donnelley Rowley — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:24:40 +0000

Love these questions. And these answers. I especially love the name! Genius Will come back and write more when I have the time, when I can be more present.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:22:06 +0000

Lindsey, thank you for initiating this project. The title, and the concept behind it, is brilliant - it evokes both a struggle to remain in the moment and the guilt, the tension, we feel when we're unable to do so. Thank you, too, for introducing me to Kelly's writing. I look forward to reading more from both of you.

I think often about my tendency to think of everything and nothing all at once. In our multitasking age, I look for ways to quiet my mind long enough to engage with a task. Yoga worked for me once; I wish looking at my children did more often.

Is it possible that being mindful of the need to be present is in fact a manner of being present?