Take your time or time will take you.
Rant #3. A time-mastered meal. Laying the bricks of power on the intentional path.
An evening with a time-mastered meal.
Just the other day I went to a nice Italian spot called ‘Dea,’ by myself (which I love to do, my “me and my meal” time is sacred), and sat at the Kitchen Counter. The Kitchen Counter is a restaurant concept where you are placed in front of a window or an open space looking straight into the kitchen (ex. the sushi counter).
The food was delicious, especially the “Roasted Bone Marrow,” it was akin to the silky texture of pâté and came plated with crostini and kale dressed in a black garlic jus. Spread them together on a crostini and boom! Heaven on the tongue. I sent the energetics of this meal to my bones, blood, heart, and higher mind; as you do when consuming marrow and kale. I’ve loved bone marrow ever since my Puerto Rican roommate in college introduced me to the correct way to eat chicken wings.
Anyway, I’m sitting there enjoying this phenomenal dish while watching the Chef and his team run dinner service. I notice the intentional time taken between wiping off plate rims and placing them on the expo line. He’s really not doing anything else. His line was t-i-g-h-t. He was just taking a beat before delivering each pasta, salad, entrée, etc. he had crafted for his dining room. Breathing life into the dish as to respect the brick he was laying along the path of that evening. He was mastering his time.
Unlike any other Chef I’ve worked with or observed, he was present and open. I know THIS is why my meal tasted so great and I felt light and floaty leaving the restaurant (even though I was stuffed to the fill line).
He didn’t rush his dinner service therefore I was not rushed to finish it, I was not rushed to absorb it, I was taken on a journey with my meal as his intention was set for me to do so. Brick by brick. A truly Masterful Chef.
Hurry Up-Let’s Go-Run-Shake a leg-Post Haste!
The concept of time and being “on it” is hilarious to me. If time has been running you like this, I’m sorry to say…it is “on you” and most likely draining your power.
Why are people in such a hurry when they aren’t going anywhere?
Round and round chasing approval—a co-signer for thoughts and feelings—bitching about the powerlessness they inject themselves with—fighting for passage at a checkpoint in this video game reality—waiting to collect golden rings at each level with a pat on the head.
Congratulations!
You made it to the front door of the same house you want, dare I say need, to escape. Cyclical time loop fuckery.
Most people spend their lives eating, sleeping and running (mostly mentally) from here to there. Moving — mostly blind— to the beat of the world around them that demands so much and delivers so little. Then, eventually dying slowly from some sort of decadent disease or decaying illness unconsciously chosen over and over from a lifetime of giving up their personal time power.
Hi! I’m The Purple Peach and I want you to have all your power.
The story about the tortoise and the hare comes to mind.
The tortoise wins the race because of his diligence, patience and understanding that every step matters. He doesn’t view the event as a “race,” like the hare does. He’s fully present. He takes his intentional steps gracefully, congruent with his own choices.
All steps we take create an individual brick on the path through life. When we skip an intentional brick laying stage we get thrown back to stand on the last true brick laid, entering another cycle of “why am I stuck?”
Some marriages are perfect examples here but…I won’t go on that rant today.
And so castles made of sand
Fall in the sea
Eventually
~ Jimi Hendrix
Patience—It ain’t a virtue for no reason.
This has been one of life’s hardest lessons for me to learn. Mostly because of my headstrong and willful nature with a learned perfectionistic twist. I am a Chef, Writer and Musician. I want it done and I want it done correctly, the first time, or you can move over and ill do it my fucking self. Product of a militant upbringing with a keen bullshit radar.
We all have our things.
I had to learn ‘time’ and patience, as do you.
Whenever I thought I could start running (whether I was working on a song, project or recipe) before all the bricks were aligned, I would hurt my knee or ankle or get in a fender bender or get stuck behind 18-wheelers on the freeway blocking each lane, making me “late.” Murphys law and such.
This is life: sometimes it’s subtle, sometimes it’s loud. Pay attention.
It does not care if you are first in or last out or “on time.”
I get it. It’s infuriating when you have somewhere to be and a ‘time’ you are asked to arrive there. Without patience with yourself and understanding of your own ‘timing’ you end up running: wasting energy and stressing out (more wasted energy). That frustration is a by product of your control system, let it go and create a new one.
System override by peace and personal power.
Guess what…the universe doesn’t actually give a fuck about you being “on time”, it only cares about you being “on your path,” aligned with its’ laws. You are creating your path, therefore you do not need to bow down to any systematic authority regarding it.
If you’re sitting there saying “this is bullshit blah blah I have deadlines, clients, children etc etc.,” then you may be stuck in the rat race and that’s ok. You may need to conquer the maze and a few more of its layers.
Time will take you until you master it.
What if Universal Time is what you are meant to be laying bricks with?
What if the circadian rhythm of your body is what truly guides your perfect timing?
Universal laws are the only laws, the laws of man are just bad mimics.
Regarding your personal power within the universe, Johnny Truant delivers a truth so simple and perfect in this short, lovely book titled “The Universe Doesn’t Give A Fuck About You.” Worth checking out.
“The universe is very big. You are very small. In fact, you're so small and so insignificant in the big picture that you don't even register to the eye of the cosmos. The universe was here before you were born and will be here long after you're gone, and your life is but a blip on its vast, vast radar.
If your life is to matter, it's not going to matter to the universe. It's up to you to make your life matter in the only way you can: by doing things that make a difference to you, to those around you, and to those whose lives you touch. Time is short. You have exactly NOW to do whatever it is you're here to do, or to let the inexorable passage of hours and days and years kill your potential like fruit left to die on a vine.” - Johnny Truant, “The Universe Doesn’t Give A Fuck About You.”
Put that in your proverbial pipe and smoke it.
The body clock
Our vessels are intelligent. They can be tuned like musical instruments and programmed like computers within our own individual circadian rhythms. The intentional heathcare (deathcare) industry had us all tuned to its intention as children. It is time to tune our bodies ourselves, with our own power. I mean, we are the ones that have to live in them right?
Take care not to surrender your internal clock to external forces. Take your time.
It all begins with our belief systems: what we say and how we say it. So watch your words when talking about yourself and your body. It is listening. As it is with all things in this hall of mirrors called life, once you think it (or fear it) you make it your reality in real ‘time’. You are the author writing your own love (or hate) story and your body is acting it out. Choices, choices.
Take time and intention back for yourself or, unfortunately, time will take you and the intention of the corrupted system will stick to you like glue.
All is of the mind. Use yours intentionally.
The Purple Peach
What are your thoughts on the intentional alignment of time?
How does your body communicate timing to you?
How have you broken your own time-loops throughout life?
Shout out to the Substack writers and creators digging into higher mind perspectives, brutal honesty, raw self-awareness and ways of living the best life possible in this crazy world.
I see you and appreciate you.
Thanks for the mention! Great piece, too. I often think of how Alan Watts described our rushing capitalistic culture as "mistaking the menu for the food," and I can't help but feel it applies on multiple levels here! We live in the cult of money, and we have completely forgotten what money is supposed to be for.
Thank you for including me, Purple Peach. It’s greatly appreciated. The chef reminded me of how interconnected everything is and how we often forget that.