I guess technically Emily gave me "pause." Anyway, she was the one who gave me my pause mug. I love my mug. It's impossible to use a pause mug without periodically pausing.
The word "caesura" means a pause marking a rhythmic break in the flow of sound in a melody. While it's a bit of a stretch to define one's life as a melody, it seems to me that in music (as in life), it's not all about the notes. Maybe it's defined more by the pause. The nanosecond awe about what's just been experienced. The breathless expectation of what's ahead.
A pause may look to some like hesitation, inaction, or delay. Pause looks to me like a moment, a respite, a reprieve. Sometimes for me an entire universe is in a pause. Sometimes that's the pinhole through which I witness a humble peek at reality. Pause giving me pause.
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