Janice, I re-read yesterday's comments and absolutely can't believe that snowdrops are coming up! In Montreal, we are just entering the real deep-freeze part of winter, and whether here or in my Vermont garden, there won't be snowdrops for another four months. No wonder I was entranced by the Greek myths and Demeter and Persephone when I was young!
I feel like this recommitment to meditation is helping me get back to (and remember more quickly) some important realizations - that this moment is really OK, that right now is all we have and you might as well be positive within it, and that the breath is always there. These are so simple and so helpful in daily life - how is it that we get so far "off"?
Re-entry into my regular life is always difficult after seeing my parents, so I had some difficult moments this morning, but I think I've mostly worked through them. Like I said, it helps.
Beth: I so remember how unsettled I used to be returning home after visiting my elderly parents when they were alive. A cauldron of conflicting emotions, worry, fatigue, missing them but glad to be back in my own space too ...
I agree, I think my morning quiet times do help - they certainly have in the stuff I've had to deal with in the last few weeks. Not necessarily negative stuff, but situations that bring up a lot of emotions. And yes, this moment is OK and right now is all we have.
Sat this morning, about 15 minutes. Glad to be doing it, and also glad to be posting the date regularly here this last week. When I am at work I can't access blogs, so it's nice to be able to do my bit while I'm on holiday. A good reminder too that I need to sit every day, if ever I am tempted to "forget".
Beth, the snowdrops are a couple weeks early, but it has been wet and rainy. They're close to the house in a warm corner
This re-commitment has helped me get back to regular sitting ... abandoned recently because of my bad knee. And sitting now in a more modified posture, teaches me about acceptance of how it is. Leonard Cohen's words come back to me again and again ...
"Ring the bells that still can ring; Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; That's how the light gets in"
i spent all of today at the doc and the vet, and, just when i thought i had time to sit i was grappling with lorraine's fierce editing demands (!) and a possible book proposal, so didn't sit but enjoyed much quiet time anyway especially in this pice which your quote , janice, says better in several than i do in a thousand words.
beth, we chose, because of all the time i've spent away touring this year, not to throw ourselves off in that way this christmas and were à deux. however, though we needed it, there were times when it felt selfish and indulgent and we both miseed the wonderful chaos of family.
I love the words to that anthem. And I'm still amazed by the thought of snowdrops and rhodies.
My schedule is completely cattywompus these days and will be into the new year. But periodically I sit and periodically I focus on breath, and periodically I re-center myself.
Just tried to post a new date for today, Thursday, to find that the template seems to have (temporarily?) vanished along with all the previous posts! Have to go out now for the rest of the day, but hopefully this will be a temporary glitch and someone else will have more success than I have.
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Janice, I re-read yesterday's comments and absolutely can't believe that snowdrops are coming up! In Montreal, we are just entering the real deep-freeze part of winter, and whether here or in my Vermont garden, there won't be snowdrops for another four months. No wonder I was entranced by the Greek myths and Demeter and Persephone when I was young!
I feel like this recommitment to meditation is helping me get back to (and remember more quickly) some important realizations - that this moment is really OK, that right now is all we have and you might as well be positive within it, and that the breath is always there. These are so simple and so helpful in daily life - how is it that we get so far "off"?
Re-entry into my regular life is always difficult after seeing my parents, so I had some difficult moments this morning, but I think I've mostly worked through them. Like I said, it helps.
Beth: I so remember how unsettled I used to be returning home after visiting my elderly parents when they were alive. A cauldron of conflicting emotions, worry, fatigue, missing them but glad to be back in my own space too ...
I agree, I think my morning quiet times do help - they certainly have in the stuff I've had to deal with in the last few weeks. Not necessarily negative stuff, but situations that bring up a lot of emotions. And yes, this moment is OK and right now is all we have.
Sat this morning, about 15 minutes.
Glad to be doing it, and also glad to be posting the date regularly here this last week. When I am at work I can't access blogs, so it's nice to be able to do my bit while I'm on holiday. A good reminder too that I need to sit every day, if ever I am tempted to "forget".
Beth, the snowdrops are a couple weeks early, but it has been wet and rainy. They're close to the house in a warm corner
This re-commitment has helped me get back to regular sitting ... abandoned recently because of my bad knee. And sitting now in a more modified posture, teaches me about acceptance of how it is. Leonard Cohen's words come back to me again and again ...
"Ring the bells that still can ring;
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything;
That's how the light gets in"
that's a lovely quote janice.
i spent all of today at the doc and the vet, and, just when i thought i had time to sit i was grappling with lorraine's fierce editing demands (!) and a possible book proposal, so didn't sit but enjoyed much quiet time anyway especially in this pice which your quote , janice, says better in several than i do in a thousand words.
beth, we chose, because of all the time i've spent away touring this year, not to throw ourselves off in that way this christmas and were à deux. however, though we needed it, there were times when it felt selfish and indulgent and we both miseed the wonderful chaos of family.
I love the words to that anthem. And I'm still amazed by the thought of snowdrops and rhodies.
My schedule is completely cattywompus these days and will be into the new year. But periodically I sit and periodically I focus on breath, and periodically I re-center myself.
Just tried to post a new date for today, Thursday, to find that the template seems to have (temporarily?) vanished along with all the previous posts! Have to go out now for the rest of the day, but hopefully this will be a temporary glitch and someone else will have more success than I have.
Sat 5 mins this am. Better than nothing.
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