we stopped in every passing place
to watch the world move
faster than we do
watch it pass with our eyes closed
the way we usually choose to
--idlewild, in remote part/scottish fiction
these are some of the things that made me slow down, take a moment, smile or sigh or laugh or scream or somehow shut off the autopilot so that i might really take notice of the world, or at least one small part of it, before continuing on my way.