If others like the idea too, Dale, we could just do it the last Friday of each month, or something like that.
It's so beautiful here this morning! I'm sure most of you don't want snow, but if you have to have it, this is the way to go. Brenda, did you get a lot over there? Lorianne - I'm thinking of Reggie and hoping he's better today.
The last Friday of the month would work for me, mostly. I'm mindful of the issue of time, though: would we want to move the time around so all timezones would have a turn to sit at a convenient time? (Yesterday's time was perfect for me...but I'm sure it was less-than-ideal for others!)
On the Reggie front...we went to the vet yesterday, where they gave the option of waiting & watching another day or going ahead with bloodwork. Since Reg does NOT like going to the vet, I opted to do bloodwork sooner rather than later, and I'm glad I did since Reg was sick again throughout the night.
The vets are stumped by the fact that Reggie acts sick only intermittently...but then they hasten to add that at his age, this could be a symptom of something serious. So here's hoping the bloodwork points to what's wrong, and we can move onto addressing it.
I would be happy to sit together once a month. And, yes, we could rotate the time so that it's not always in the middle of the day for the same people.
I too alternated yesterday between thinking of each of you in turn and returning to the breath. I had lots of strange feelings - mental, emotional and physical - uncertainty, questioning - an overwhelming sense of peace and of many presences around me. And, yes, who knows how much was my own imagination, and it's not important. And the physical pain disappeared as soon as I got up... but maybe it was just tension... not important either.
What's important is that I sat first thing this morning, and it is feeling very stable.
How lovely to think of the snow falling. Here, it's cold and clear, with white-blue light, but no sign of snow.
Much love to Reggie-dog and Lorianne, and to all of you.
Yes, last Friday of the month is fine with me too in principle. And agree about rotating time zones. It was a lovely experience. I would not like to be definite about what happened, only that I was present and did not feel alone.
Sat this morning - it's funny there is a small(?) part of me that actively does not want to sit and finds very good reasons for leaving it all to the last minute so the meditation is much more time pressured than it needs to be. Not sure what it is about,since when I do the experience is more often than not positive, even when my mind is very distracted.
Lorianne, wishing you and REggie the very best ...
I've issued a couple invitations, as an experiment. Looks like Beth is in! I need email addresses to issue an invitation, and I don't have them for Moose or Mary (that I know of; I didn't look hard.) Ruth, does your email address really contain the string phiilips, or is that a typo?
Beth, did they have you create a password, or what? My only concern about having a bunch of posting members is that blogger blogs do get hacked from time to time, and the more ways in, the more possibilities of hacking -- so practice good password paranoia (don't use dictionary-words, & so forth; you know the drill.)
My understanding - and I may be wrong - was that we were going to start another 100 days on 1 January. That idea was certainly floated .... but I may have missed something since then. :-)
sorry dale, only seem to be a team member. If you want J to change the header i need to go to settings, then members, then be given admin powers (ooh la la...) at the moment i can't change the settings from my account. that way we can copy your template for the days and maybe change the colours and font to match?
on a more general note, since we will all be team members, shall we make it a possibility for anyone (or no-one) to put up a quote or an essay on the day if they feel like it?
i think it is a good idea (from one of us) for the first person who posts to put up the day? people could always add an extra post (quote:essay) if they like?
are we each posting or commenting this time around?
A nice thing about just commenting is that it makes us all equal... if we're posting, too, then the members who can post are more equal than someone who just stops by.
On the other hand I'm sure people would post wondeful things. (We could post, for example, Lorianne's meditation instructions, for a start.)
The only suggestion for the end of "overtime" that I've heard is the beginning of the year. I'd happily do that, or earlier. Still thinking over what commitment I want to make for the next hundred. I probably missed something like ten days out of the hundred -- I'm wondering if I'd be more or less likely to keep a heftier commitment, and if I want to commit to resuming my Ngondro practice... it's nice to have a few days to let those questions simmer.
I was feeling tired & cranky from grading, and just plain tired from the ongoing Reggie saga. After having a good morning & a good midday walk, Reg was sick again in the afternoon...and the vet is still mystified, finding nothing conclusive in the bloodwork other than some slightly raised liver levels that could indicate a temporary toxic reaction, something more serious, or something entirely different. (???)
Anyhow, after I decided *not* to give Reg any dinner, or even much water, tonight, he seems to have settled down, *hopefully* for the night. So while he rested, I sat for about 15 minutes, feeling grateful for the simple silence of a dog sleeping rather than than retching.
I was planning to grade papers on the couch, but Reg just claimed it. So I guess grading in bed isn't that bad after all.
Probably unnecessarily, since Ruth and Julian are going to make it beautiful, I commented out the "blog contributors" section in the template -- which seemed to fairly scream "we're in the secret club and you aren't!" (maybe I'm too sensitive about this? I hate "inner circles.")
And to my surprise the size of things mutated. The numbers are larger. If I've uglified this or made it less legible, holler! Easy to put back.
At present all being a "contributing member" means, so far as I know, is that if you're the first person to show up on a given day you can (if you feel like it) "post the day."
Do I understand this? Ruth & Dale are administrators now, which means they have access to the template. The rest of us are contributing members, which means we can post. Is that right?
that all looks good for us to change the template. Do you guys want the same text at the top? Personally I really like it and it feels inviting for new people. Do we want to say anything about it being the second 100 days?
re posting, I totally understand trying to get away from the heirachy thing and agree. I like the idea though of anyone (including 'non team members/passing traffic?) being able to put up a quote they like or a particular meditation or even a picture or a question to prompt discussion. For me some of the most valuable stuff has been the debate element.
What does everyone else feel?
Working on it over the next few days so do please feed back if something screams "No!" (or indeed "yes!"). Most of the template can be changed pretty easily as far as I can see.
I love the idea of taking time to feel out what we want to renew and start day 1 again on 1 Jan.
I've only just got home and caught up but wanted to post on day 100! may copy on today...
first the introvert extrovert thing fascinates me: J is an introvert yet he admits to being stimulated by both company and going out into nature. After all what attracted him to me at a wedding was my walking boots as much as my simultaneous rendition of Bach! I alm an axtrovert and yet i seem to spend most of my time fighting for space....have we got it all confused?
I sat last night, I hope with some of you. My rehearsal extended into a sectional rehearsal (overtime!) because our intonatuion was so shit. So I thought of you all when I was tring to find the F sharp which would match that of our leader...
Then I rushed back to the hotel, ordered an Indian takeaway (lentils and rice) and said I would be 20 mins! i sat and did a loving kindness meditataion for each of you. (Are you still here, John? ). It was lovely and at the end I visualised spontaneously us all hoilding hands in a circle of peace. Given the somewhat stressful circumstances it was quuite beautiful. Then I showered, slapped on some lippy and ran to the concert hall and played Bach and Pergolese with you all in my heart.
I want, above all, to thank you ,Dale, for ...well, for you. Without you we would not be here and nor would any of us have so much poetry and humility in our lives. I hope you'll stay.
Just home so will look at banner and Julian not well, so hang in there.Dale you need somehow to give us access to the site so we can change the template. Perhaps we could email about this?
Love the template Ruth. Thank you so much to you and Julian for the work you've put in. I personally would really like the banner wording at the top.
Re the other questions, I need a bit more time to ponder ... and to hear others' feedback. I think the advantage of the comments system is its simplicity - I don't feel intimidated giving my 2 pennies worth here ... however trivial it seems to be.
I sat this morning (Sunday) 10 minutes. I am finding it necessary to do some yoga-type stretches before the meditation session for back stuff and am trying to make that meditative as well as the actual sitting.
Ruth - thanks again to you both. Very much appreciated!
dale, have i missed something? so, if i get an 'invitation' (which i haven't yet got) can J change the site to the ikat banner with those log in details??
and do we want to go another hundred? starting asap or on the first of the new year?
i like the idea of doing a group hang on the last friday of each month though with my crazy irregular life can't promise anything exact!
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If others like the idea too, Dale, we could just do it the last Friday of each month, or something like that.
It's so beautiful here this morning! I'm sure most of you don't want snow, but if you have to have it, this is the way to go. Brenda, did you get a lot over there? Lorianne - I'm thinking of Reggie and hoping he's better today.
The last Friday of the month would work for me, mostly. I'm mindful of the issue of time, though: would we want to move the time around so all timezones would have a turn to sit at a convenient time? (Yesterday's time was perfect for me...but I'm sure it was less-than-ideal for others!)
On the Reggie front...we went to the vet yesterday, where they gave the option of waiting & watching another day or going ahead with bloodwork. Since Reg does NOT like going to the vet, I opted to do bloodwork sooner rather than later, and I'm glad I did since Reg was sick again throughout the night.
The vets are stumped by the fact that Reggie acts sick only intermittently...but then they hasten to add that at his age, this could be a symptom of something serious. So here's hoping the bloodwork points to what's wrong, and we can move onto addressing it.
I would be happy to sit together once a month. And, yes, we could rotate the time so that it's not always in the middle of the day for the same people.
I too alternated yesterday between thinking of each of you in turn and returning to the breath. I had lots of strange feelings - mental, emotional and physical - uncertainty, questioning - an overwhelming sense of peace and of many presences around me. And, yes, who knows how much was my own imagination, and it's not important. And the physical pain disappeared as soon as I got up... but maybe it was just tension... not important either.
What's important is that I sat first thing this morning, and it is feeling very stable.
How lovely to think of the snow falling. Here, it's cold and clear, with white-blue light, but no sign of snow.
Much love to Reggie-dog and Lorianne, and to all of you.
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Yes, last Friday of the month is fine with me too in principle. And agree about rotating time zones. It was a lovely experience. I would not like to be definite about what happened, only that I was present and did not feel alone.
Sat this morning - it's funny there is a small(?) part of me that actively does not want to sit and finds very good reasons for leaving it all to the last minute so the meditation is much more time pressured than it needs to be. Not sure what it is about,since when I do the experience is more often than not positive, even when my mind is very distracted.
Lorianne, wishing you and REggie the very best ...
Well, Dale, I managed to log in the new way...
Lorianne, I really hope this turns out to be something simple.
Welcome back, Ruth! I has been so lovely to read each person's account of yesterday - we are all just like ourselves, aren't we! And how good that is.
Yes, let's change the times around as fits everyone...my schedule is more flexible than many of yours, so it's not a big issue for me.
I've issued a couple invitations, as an experiment. Looks like Beth is in! I need email addresses to issue an invitation, and I don't have them for Moose or Mary (that I know of; I didn't look hard.) Ruth, does your email address really contain the string phiilips, or is that a typo?
Beth, did they have you create a password, or what? My only concern about having a bunch of posting members is that blogger blogs do get hacked from time to time, and the more ways in, the more possibilities of hacking -- so practice good password paranoia (don't use dictionary-words, & so forth; you know the drill.)
Oh. You gave me an email to use! So I've sent another invitation, Ruth. (And I'm not going anywhere, unless under duress :->)
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Looks like the wintermane address went through. I've now made you an administrator, Ruth, which I think means you should be able to do anything now.
My understanding - and I may be wrong - was that we were going to start another 100 days on 1 January. That idea was certainly floated .... but I may have missed something since then. :-)
sorry dale, only seem to be a team member. If you want J to change the header i need to go to settings, then members, then be given admin powers (ooh la la...) at the moment i can't change the settings from my account. that way we can copy your template for the days and maybe change the colours and font to match?
on a more general note, since we will all be team members, shall we make it a possibility for anyone (or no-one) to put up a quote or an essay on the day if they feel like it?
i think it is a good idea (from one of us) for the first person who posts to put up the day? people could always add an extra post (quote:essay) if they like?
are we each posting or commenting this time around?
Try logging in again; when I look at the settings it shows you as an admin, Ruth.
A nice thing about just commenting is that it makes us all equal... if we're posting, too, then the members who can post are more equal than someone who just stops by.
On the other hand I'm sure people would post wondeful things. (We could post, for example, Lorianne's meditation instructions, for a start.)
The only suggestion for the end of "overtime" that I've heard is the beginning of the year. I'd happily do that, or earlier. Still thinking over what commitment I want to make for the next hundred. I probably missed something like ten days out of the hundred -- I'm wondering if I'd be more or less likely to keep a heftier commitment, and if I want to commit to resuming my Ngondro practice... it's nice to have a few days to let those questions simmer.
Lorianne, I hope things smooth out with Reggie. That sounds tough.
Dale you can email me at findmeabluebird AT hotmail.com .
Passwords: work in some numerals, subsituting them for a letter or two if you can.
I'm completely flexible on monthly date and time (love the idea) as well as on the start date for the Next 100.
Enjoyed the descriptions of folks' experiences.
I just now sat for about 15 minutes.
I was feeling tired & cranky from grading, and just plain tired from the ongoing Reggie saga. After having a good morning & a good midday walk, Reg was sick again in the afternoon...and the vet is still mystified, finding nothing conclusive in the bloodwork other than some slightly raised liver levels that could indicate a temporary toxic reaction, something more serious, or something entirely different. (???)
Anyhow, after I decided *not* to give Reg any dinner, or even much water, tonight, he seems to have settled down, *hopefully* for the night. So while he rested, I sat for about 15 minutes, feeling grateful for the simple silence of a dog sleeping rather than than retching.
I was planning to grade papers on the couch, but Reg just claimed it. So I guess grading in bed isn't that bad after all.
Probably unnecessarily, since Ruth and Julian are going to make it beautiful, I commented out the "blog contributors" section in the template -- which seemed to fairly scream "we're in the secret club and you aren't!" (maybe I'm too sensitive about this? I hate "inner circles.")
And to my surprise the size of things mutated. The numbers are larger. If I've uglified this or made it less legible, holler! Easy to put back.
At present all being a "contributing member" means, so far as I know, is that if you're the first person to show up on a given day you can (if you feel like it) "post the day."
Do I understand this? Ruth & Dale are administrators now, which means they have access to the template. The rest of us are contributing members, which means we can post. Is that right?
yup.
that all looks good for us to change the template. Do you guys want the same text at the top? Personally I really like it and it feels inviting for new people. Do we want to say anything about it being the second 100 days?
re posting, I totally understand trying to get away from the heirachy thing and agree. I like the idea though of anyone (including 'non team members/passing traffic?) being able to put up a quote they like or a particular meditation or even a picture or a question to prompt discussion. For me some of the most valuable stuff has been the debate element.
What does everyone else feel?
Working on it over the next few days so do please feed back if something screams "No!" (or indeed "yes!"). Most of the template can be changed pretty easily as far as I can see.
I love the idea of taking time to feel out what we want to renew and start day 1 again on 1 Jan.
I've only just got home and caught up but wanted to post on day 100! may copy on today...
first the introvert extrovert thing fascinates me: J is an introvert yet he admits to being stimulated by both company and going out into nature. After all what attracted him to me at a wedding was my walking boots as much as my simultaneous rendition of Bach! I alm an axtrovert and yet i seem to spend most of my time fighting for space....have we got it all confused?
I sat last night, I hope with some of you. My rehearsal extended into a sectional rehearsal (overtime!) because our intonatuion was so shit. So I thought of you all when I was tring to find the F sharp which would match that of our leader...
Then I rushed back to the hotel, ordered an Indian takeaway (lentils and rice) and said I would be 20 mins! i sat and did a loving kindness meditataion for each of you. (Are you still here, John? ). It was lovely and at the end I visualised spontaneously us all hoilding hands in a circle of peace. Given the somewhat stressful circumstances it was quuite beautiful. Then I showered, slapped on some lippy and ran to the concert hall and played Bach and Pergolese with you all in my heart.
I want, above all, to thank you ,Dale, for ...well, for you. Without you we would not be here and nor would any of us have so much poetry and humility in our lives. I hope you'll stay.
Just home so will look at banner and Julian not well, so hang in there.Dale you need somehow to give us access to the site so we can change the template. Perhaps we could email about this?
Bless and thank you all and...
A la prochaine hundred!
Love the template Ruth. Thank you so much to you and Julian for the work you've put in. I personally would really like the banner wording at the top.
Re the other questions, I need a bit more time to ponder ... and to hear others' feedback. I think the advantage of the comments system is its simplicity - I don't feel intimidated giving my 2 pennies worth here ... however trivial it seems to be.
I sat this morning (Sunday) 10 minutes. I am finding it necessary to do some yoga-type stretches before the meditation session for back stuff and am trying to make that meditative as well as the actual sitting.
Ruth - thanks again to you both. Very much appreciated!
dale, have i missed something? so, if i get an 'invitation' (which i haven't yet got) can J change the site to the ikat banner with those log in details??
and do we want to go another hundred? starting asap or on the first of the new year?
i like the idea of doing a group hang on the last friday of each month though with my crazy irregular life can't promise anything exact!
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