The Delight of Odd Hours - The Debut

I meditated with a timer this morning. It was refreshing because, despite an hour meditation marked by a timer being a twice daily ritual for a whole year of my life, it’s a tool that I’ve been utilizing less and less of late. The timer that is. Meditation, ironically, has been a tool that I’ve been using more and enjoying more the more and more I allow myself to leave the constraints of the timer. It’s becoming less of a scheduled event and more of a seditiously spontaneous act, or rather non-act, of counter-cultural non-doing. It’s been delightful. 

This delight of getting out of time has been a theme of mine recently. It’s allowing myself to get lost in the sauce of whatever I’m doing without the distraction of pulling myself out of the now to check the time. Delight itself has also been a theme recently. That is, how to have more delight in life. How to invite more enjoyment into my days. Not necessarily by doing more categorically enjoyable things, but by enjoying whatever it is I’m doing more. And the experience of time has been central of this. I’m finding that when we stop and smell the roses, so to speak, there are little gems of delight all around for us to enjoy. Delight is like that - it’s wherever we make space for it. The Delight of Odd Hours begins when the second we allow ourselves to be in the magic of the present. 

I want more delight in my life. Don’t you? I deserve it, and so do you. Not like a little side dish of enjoyment every once in a while. I mean happiness as a way of moving through life - the delight of the wide eyed child. Not like lukewarm jacuzzi level well-being. Laughing Buddha tears rolling down my eyes level of well being. Sukha, as he would say in his language. Joy. Radical-well being. Are you with me? Hop on board, because once you taste that possibility, then the journey begins. 

Because this newsletter is a long project. I don’t know where it’s going to take me (us). It’s some combination of whimsy, wisdom, and well-being. ​You can expect to not only be privy to my existential musings but also to the powerful, effective and accessible wellness technologies that I am implementing with myself and my patients. It’s part wellness, part philosophy, part chiropractic, yet something I hope it to be wholly authentic to me. It is my hope that the authentic in me may resonate with the authentic in you. That together we can be inspired and empowered as a wellness tribe. A tribe that knows they deserve a level of health and happiness far greater than what the world sells them. It’s us to whom Bikkhu Bodhi writes “A deeper reality beckons us; we have heard the call of a more stable, more authentic happiness, and until we arrive at our destination we cannot rest content.” That’s my tribe. That’s you.

Summer 2021 preparing to leave OC for SLO

Thank you for choosing to invest your time and energy in this project. I look forward to sharing this journey with you! 

Welcome to “The Delight of Odd Hours” - monthly Wisdom, Whimsy, and Well-Being.

With love,

Dr. Kent