One of the recommendations from Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way is to take a couple of “Artist’s Walks” a week.

An Artist’s Walk is going for a 20-minute walk or more. With no specific purpose.

It’s to wander. And think. And see.

I don’t always get in an Artist’s Walk. But this week I did.

I decided to go for a walk in the Mountview Garden Cemetery.

I find it fascinating to look at the gravestones and imagine the lives lived.

Some long. Some short.

Many inscribed with words of love and remembrance.

There weren’t a lot of the living there. But there were some.

And fresh flowers were left at many graves.

I saw one lady fussing with the flowers on a headstone. And when she was satisfied, she sat on a nearby bench. Looking at the headstone and drinking from her Tim Horton’s coffee.

I didn’t want to disturb her. So, I didn’t get close enough to see who she was visiting.

Her husband? A child? A friend?

A loved one, I’m sure.

And then you look at how many graves there are. So many lives lived.

It’s good for perspective.

Because no matter how annoying some things in your life might seem, it will be over before you know it.

And those annoying things will have most likely been nothing in the scheme of your life.