Comments on: Redefining Rush Hour

By: jen

jen — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:54:23 +0000

I have been unemployed for a long time but just got a job offer this week!! I guess I will be part of this life again, not to mention school at night…….talk about RUSH!

It would be nice to redefine it.

how I handle it?

breathe…in and out, close your eyes, listen to music, read a book, be kind and considerate to those you share the ride with

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:50:46 +0000

I am still trying to figure out when rush hour ends. It seems to have started when my son was born and it hasn’t ever ended.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:47:50 +0000

It’s interesting that some of your commenters can’t envision this Rush Hour 2.0 ever existing. And kind of sad, right? Or, if not sad, perhaps a bit unfair?

Jen and I speak often of the fact that our brains–and not only our lives–are on fast-forward. That nothing seems to get accomplished even though we are whizzing through it all. That the lists keep growing and the chores keep spilling over onto our plates. Press Pause. Stop time. Find time. Caress and cherish that time.

Strong message. Well-needed. But I think it takes a certain kind of life to be able to succeed at an hour’s chunk of time. Perhaps an hour split up into 5 minute chunks is all I can get on any given day. It’s not enough and I will never pretend that it is, nor will I pretend that it feels the same as one solid hour of calm and peace to myself, but if it’s all I have, I’ve got to find a wee bit of solace in it.

Sigh.
Been missing you lately. Been missing my hour (or more) of blog reading AND commenting.

Cheers!

By: Nicki

Nicki — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:19:46 +0000

I have tried this recently. My ability to do so was helped by the fact that I have only one child at home now and two adult children who can take some of the hustle and bustle off my plate.

I had a friend who would come by. We would just sit and talk or play cards or watch a movie in the middle of the day. We would go for runs – at the same time, though in different directions, different distances. This friend slowed me down and I will be forever grateful for that.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:04:35 +0000

Rush hour – getting myself ready so I can get the kids out of the house. Finding out that, once again, they’ve forgotten to pack up their stuff, get their lunches, or (voila) brush their teeth. I continue to rush till I walk in my exercise class and then I’ve got it, an hour to myself, six days a week. Spoiled, I know.

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:16:22 +0000

What a lovely idea, but, Like Wolf, I don’t envision this in my future.

The reason why I blog is because I can do that while holding babies. It doesn’t really take from reading time because I can’t read anyway! Reading from a screen is much easier than reading from a book while I am nursing or cuddling a screaming baby.

Rush hour? Every minute of my day. Right now, I don’t really have any breaks.

If I could find that hour, I may, sit down and write. While I adore reading, writing has become a major source of passion.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:33:26 +0000

You just wrote a sentence that captures what I feel when I come *home* so eloquently–
“We resume who it is we were before the mad rush. And after. Ensconced in the comfort of home, we begin to forget. The human hassle, the gridlock of stop and go, now and later, self and other. We settle in. Unwind. Breathe.”
I wrote that line down in my journal and it is a sentence I will certainly be quoting, giving you full credit, of course.

By: becca

becca — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:49:07 +0000

My rush hour is definitely the hour before school… lunches made, breakfasts eaten, kids dressed, me dressed, out the door… it’s nuts. And I hate it every single day.

An hour a day? I’d probably go for a nice long run or go to the gym without the stress of having to get home for anyone.

I love this idea… if only I could figure out how to make it work!

By: abby

abby — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:13:39 +0000

oooh, i love new definitions and this one’s a doozy. making RUSH hour be for me, about me, including just me. how scrumptious. i would read on the couch in a silent room so that i can hear the characters’ voices more clearly.

maybe with a glass of champagne next to me. or hot chocolate. or a peppermint mocha.

bring on rush hour!

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schmutzie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:57:53 +0000

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