Beauty 365 … Stories of Love and Life for Everyday

When you do the maths, you can work out that there are 144 lots of ten minutes in every day. If you allow for eight hours of sleep time, and subtract that from the total, it means that there are 96 lots of ten minutes in the waking house of each day. Now unless you are a lawyer and have had to fill out those incessant time sheets, you probably haven't thought too much about how you are spending each of these 96 ten minutes periods. 96! That sounds like an awful lot of time, doesn't it!?

Day 43 of our lock-down journey, and I am marvelling at our sixteen year old who daily committed one of his ten minute time-slots to learning the guitar. More the sporty type, he has shied away from music, but one of the blessings of these slower paced days is the way they have allowed for personal exploration and expansion. Funnily enough, at the start of the lock-down, I dusted off my own guitar again. I'm no maestro, but I taught one of the girls a few chords, who then ran with it, and is now teaching her brother, both helped along by various guitar programs on the internet. And they are both getting good!

Ten minutes a day isn't much, but over a year that adds up to around 60 hours, and that's a lot!
Whispers about the end of lock-down have me feeling quite nervous. Having settled into this way of life, and with plenty more dreams on my wish list, l’m not sure if I’m ready to return to our old ways just yet. Instead, I'll just breathe, and embrace the next ten minutes. After all, that’s 600 seconds you know!