I found 10 minutes

2038-01-19T03:14:07Z

I found ten minutes on the street yesterday--a shiny, bright, new chunk of time just there under the new metal bench a the bus stop at 4th & Pike. I found a brand new ten minutes and I didn't know what to do with it.
It was not enough time to work out--change into yoga pants, get on the treadmill, go, go, go for only what? a minute? and then to have to shower and come back out to rejoin my day. It wasn't enough time to write--barely enough time to frame a couple of paragraphs--at most--about a protagonist and then I would have had to abandon her there at the bus stop. It wasn't enough time to get my nails done, not properly, and they wouldn't have been able to dry. It might have been enough time to meditate, but it was not enough time to decide how to meditate -- transcendental? zen? visualization? visualizing nothing? -- and by this time it had dwindled, and there was not even enough time to go to Starbuck's a block away and get a cup of coffee.
In the end I dropped it and watched it blow away, skittering down the sidewalk in a sudden gust of wind, getting smaller and smaller in the distance. My bus came and I boarded it. Twenty minutes from downtown to work. How would I spend that time?

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