Just 5 minutes...

By Vichara

Don’t go anywhere for 5 minutes today. Stay in one place, don’t get up or down in an impulsive way, just sit for 5 minutes without needing to pick up this piece of paper of that phone. Not so easy in our truly frenetic world but you will be amazed at this simple 5 minutes will do for you. Shut the door, find a place outside, somewhere you will not be seduced by an impulsive and take just 5 minutes. We are not trying to empty the mind, control the environment or have an agenda whatsoever, just stop for 5 minutes. Let the breath come in and out, let the world go by just for 5 minutes. It won’t miss you….really! Give yourself these 5 minutes of compassion and in doing so you give it the world around you.

calamari • \kah-luh-MAHR-ee\ • noun
: squid used as food

Example Sentence:
Ophelia tried fried calamari for the first time from a small seafood shack near the beach.

Did you know?
The word "calamari" was borrowed into English from 17th-century Italian, where it functioned as the plural of "calamaro" or "calamaio." The Italian word, in turn, comes from the Medieval Latin noun "calamarium," meaning "ink pot" or "pen case," and can be ultimately traced back to Latin "calamus," meaning "reed pen." The transition from pens and ink to squid is not surprising, given the inky substance that a squid ejects and the long tapered shape of the squid's body. English speakers have also adopted "calamus" itself as a word referring to both a reed pen and to a number of plants.