the ceaseless society

Fridays on daily headspa are about "going out" with the topic. Friday is a traditional going out kind of day.

If you're going out, grab this podcast and take it with you. It's an interview with Jon Kabat-Zinn in which

We explore what our guest has learned, through science and experience, about mindfulness as a way of life. This is wisdom with immediate relevance to the ordinary and extreme stresses of our time — from economic peril, to parenting, to life in a digital age.

If you're staying in, check out the same guy in a talk he gave at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA) in 2006 about "The Ceaseless Society." (The blog notes that he comes on stage at about 18 minutes into the video).

If you're staying in and needing some quality time with yourself, consider this poem Kabat-Zinn shared on the interview. It's called "Love after Love" by Derek Walcott.

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Whether you're going out or staying in, check this out to help you unplug from the ceaseless society and be in the present moment, if even for a moment: