2014.05.22 _ 30

:) Actually just one! We begin Friday 2pm ^.^ and have an overlap... which I guess is sort of nice.

Oh, why do I have the 33rd in mind? Just as well that you corrected me!

Rolled out of bed and onto the cushion, remembering yesterday's easy and comfortable "sitting still outdoors, looking at and listening to the world" meditation. I've only recently realized that my ability to close down my mind and simply exist in Nature was the same kind of mindfulness that I struggle to attain on the cushion. Why does this come to easily, and the other not?

Just about to roll into bed. (It's late; it's 2:30 a.m.) Thought I'd post these pics of my home city, taken today.

http://i.imgur.com/nozMFPul.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/bF7Vi1u.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Zle5bLg.jpg

That's not snow on the ground. It's hail!

My goodness, Storm! I would expect that there is a system there for what would make for chaos elsewhere, having such unusual weather patterns overall?

Glad to have caught you Wol, else you may have showed up for retreat day 1 after it was finished. :)

I'm heading back to bed too... 7:51am here but I woke at 3am-ish unable to sleep.

Anxiety jitters today. I have delayed going to work for an hour to give myself a bit of time to settle.

Wow Storm..... Crazy weather

So sorry to have been absent the last few days; sometimes things crowd in and take up all the space reserved for friends and contemplations. Still trying to read here to see where folks are: weathers, celebrations, contemplations, musings Looking forward to the SL retreat beginning tomorrow, though I can only do Friday and Saturday as I will be traveling Sunday. And, ah, being called away right now...

Have spent much of the day wrapping up to-do list items and cleaning, to clear space for retreat. Was thinking about Eos's lovely front yard pond, and how cultivating particular places feels to transform the whole... like the practice of flowers in a tiny vase. Somehow a small vase of flowers seemed lost in the other place but here it really matters. edited 21:53, 22 May 2014

Also starting to turn toward retreat. This weekend will be busy with house and other work, but may be interesting to experience it within a two-day droplet.