Today is the first day of the rest of my life, or so said my friend when she dropped me off from Zumba last night. I’m going to be presenting tomorrow at a conference for Waldorf educators and next weekend will be at a conference about undoing racism. I woke this morning and was overwhelmed with gratitude that I was able to get off the golden cow teat and get on the path that my…
I was reading a little bit from my Power of Now book this morning and thinking about how the premise is that thinking really gets in the way and sort of screws up the experience. Because the mind is like a steel trap keeping all the hurts and failures and misdeeds in there like a continual loop of doom playing in the background. No matter how you want to experience something for true, for new,…
“You have not failed! So get that thought out of your head right away! Yes, you might not have succeeded at what you long to achieve yet, but this does not mean you’ve failed. Get back to that vision with renewed faith and dedication. Your ancestors will never give you a vision, without giving you the tools to see it through. Get back in that fight.” – James Weeks/Across The King’s River
I’ve been contemplating money and the pains we go to earn it, so that we can spend some of it, and then we all (most of us) feel that we never have enough of it and I started thinking about what “it” is because I’m reading a book to Tin that is what people do for work. Money buys things like homes, clothes, and cars – more money buys bigger homes and more clothes and…
My meditation this morning: Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching translated by Stephen Mitchell #20 Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade. I alone don’t care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile. Other people have what they need;…
I woke this morning in the grogginess that comes from when your child has not gone to bed till very late and you now have his flu and headache that he has passed onto you. I set about making coffee and cleaning up the butternut squash soup that I had attempted to make yesterday, but the oven wasn’t working so I was making it stove top, with my headache, and not feeling the love. Today…
I was speaking with a woman the other day who described herself as metaphysical. Now mind you, I had only gotten to know this woman just within this month and I was very impressed with her life and what she had done with it, and when she described herself as metaphysical I liked that too because I too have a keen interest in knowledge that is transcendent and reality that is beyond what is perceptible…
Four is my lucky number. And Tin is almost four. He’s turns four on Tuesday, but we had his birthday party in City Park today which was about 40 something degrees while tomorrow is supposed to be 70 something degrees. Nonetheless, it was sunny, with frigid winds, but a good time was passed by all. We played pin the tail on the donkey, pulled ribbons to open the trap of the Lightning McQueen piñata, fed…
I stopped by the post office to pick up Tin’s piñata yesterday and skipped over to the empty field to pick some black eyed susans that grow wild there. People stopped and stared and one guy even asked me what they were and I said, “Blacked eyed susans” – you gonna plant them? – “No, just put them in a vase. I used to pick them as a child.” I love this about New Orleans…