The question is easy. I wrote it on a large piece of folded art paper a few weeks ago. 

   "What new life experience will you pursue today?"

  The challenge comes with your answer. Why try something new?

   Consider the typical comment of a traveler after a two-day trip: "I feel like I've been gone a week."

   Routines dominate. Repetition melts time. Trying something new not only enriches time, it extends it. 

   Protocols designed to save minutes can squander days & turn golden opportunities into lead.

   A dislike of physical travel causes me to cultivate spiritual journeys. Today I walked one with poet Kobayashi Issa down a path paved with thirteen words.

   In a few seconds I traveled a light year. And the world was a new place.  

   -Erie Chapman

P.S. "Ascending to Joy" – Erie Chapman, 2018