Absorb is a funny word.
When I taught my 4th and 5th graders how to use prefixes and suffixes to increase their vocabulary and decode bigger words, we learned that 'ab-" means away. I liked to teach my students to use Memory Minders, small tricks to help us remember what something means, and our Memory Minder for the word part 'ab-' was actually the word 'absorb,' to soak something up and away.
When I am ready a really good book and don't want to stop (to do something trivial like sleep), I wish I could put the book under my pillow and have my mind absorb its words overnight. Soak all that information into my head.
When I am practicing being mindful, I am trying to absorb all that is happening right at the moment. Trying to soak it all in.
For some reason, when I give the dog a bath, her fur does not absorb the water. It runs right off of her.
The wind was howling through the screen door in the kitchen the other afternoon and blew over the vase of flowers that Jeremy had given me for our anniversary. Water was running everywhere because the towel I was using did not want to absorb the water. Paper towels were more absorbant and did the trick.
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