Meditated between bringing the kids to school and breakfast. 10 minutes is exactly the right amount of time to roast some kale...

Standing meditation. Noticing in-breath, let my body stand up straight. Noticing out-breath, allowing body to relax. Noticed I felt a bit numb. Acknowledged the numbness. It lightened up a bit without ceasing to be numbness. And so on.

::: An old gentle soul
::: So dear and so much loving
::: Passing through the veil

I thought I'd try Wester's standing meditation, having read so much about it. Man, it's hard work! My left arm started to tremble about five minutes in, I was constantly aware of a balance of strain in my lower leg muscles as I shifted back and forth. On the other hand, I did successfully "lose myself" in the moment, and was surprised at the end how quickly 10 minutes had gone by. I'll be doing this again, but I think my poor rusty old body will need some shaking out before or after, if and when I do.

A splendid sunny busy election day.

Savored my recliner sit after the longest PaB session I'd ever attended (13:00).
Pondering 99-Days comments as news-flashes, as Samuo suggested:
"Strawberry tasted mighty fine... went for a walk and people smiled.. etc..." edited 01:04, 9 Nov 2011

Tai Chi today after missing it for 2 weeks. Not sure why but this time I felt I was just going through the motions. My mind was anywhere but with my body. Is it the weather? Is it my grey mood?

: thinks about eden's old grey soul edited 01:38, 9 Nov 2011

/me very excited about tulip trees where Aphrodite lives; may come to visit for tulip tree viewing! :-) And I enjoyed 0's suggestion of watching thoughts and images while falling asleep and while waking up. I also realized that falling asleep while watching mind is a bit like eating with fingers, without using any external implements or waking life manners as table manners. Will try to follow thoughts and images again while falling asleep tonight.

This morning's dream...seeing into an apartment through a door cracked open. Just light there. Where is this? NYC.
Remembering Susan saying I was a New Yorker at heart...

Grand Central Station
Intentions tune with track change
Arrive in no-time edited 03:49, 9 Nov 2011

learned something new, do not do tai chi when sleepie, it does not prepare you for sleep, it just makes a very messy form, then the cat attacked my feet not helping the situation at all..... night all

the light has always faded from the sky... everyday of my life. The sun comes up... 99 days.. 99years.. 99 trillion lifetimes.. check, 2, 3, check check

check-in time anytime
no allegiance
but full attention
tasting touching going