Fire and Ice
The dogs and I took a long walk through City Park this morning because we could and because it was so beautiful outside this morning. While the east coast has been socked in with horrendous snow storms, down here there was frost on the grass, an unusual sight for us to see but welcome nonetheless. Frost kills bugs if nothing else. But it also glistens in the sun and it is a sunny day and as I walked through the depths of the cypress forests on the backside of City Park, I marveled at how the frost on the grass contrasted with the deep ember cypress trees that looked like they were on fire. Fire and Ice. How beautiful.
The dogs were scampering about and chasing squirrels and doing dog things and I was contemplating and one mantra kept repeating itself through my mind – Jai Guru Deva Om. We had watched Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, which I recommend. T loves musicals and every time I thought this one would grow tedious or trite it kept itself aloft and lyrical. Well done, Julie. The same impression I had of her Lion King in NY when I saw it with Miracle Baby years ago.
I give thanks to my heavenly teacher, om. A source of mine over many years sent me a note thanking me for the voodoo pencil I sent him for a Holiday gift with the message “may all your voodoo in 2011 be good voodoo” – his note said he could already feel the luck coming from it and that was only adding to his already perceived luck. He said his golf buddy asked him if he’d rather be good or lucky, and they both had come to the conclusion that luck was the better gift.
And yes, I’m lucky, and yes, I’m grateful, but I do have times when my head is on fire and I can’t see the light emanating from the ground up – I get nervous that this lucky streak is about to end – why wouldn’t it? And I have to remind myself to flip the coin Rachel – it’s the other side you want to ponder and be grateful for – the lucky side of the coin, heads up, Jai Guru Deva, ommmm.