2014.05.25 _ 33

I'm not going to make it to the closing session today either.
These 33 days have been fun and interesting and I have learned that intentions can change, day by day, as life moves us in different directions. For myself there is a joy in the flexibility of the tree bending in the wind :-)
May we all bend well

So sorry friends to have dropped at day 26...I was challenged I guess to make a spot for being present this way. Many agendas converging.
Was learning stuff tho. Observing. Breathing. Listening. Relating to my and others' children.
Scrubbing grampa's floors. Watching my son and husband weed,and turn over grampa's garden. His wife who has just passed was mainly the gardener for many years. My son ate many raspberries out there, ate many pieces of toast with jam. Climbed trees. Watched trillium bloom. It must have formed who he is as much as anything.Now he manages others gardens and plants and grows many things...
It has been a very interesting time... edited 16:30, 25 May 2014

Goodnight friends. Thank you for this journey... these 33 Days and 3 days, of retreat.

Measuring intentions at start with end, I did not develop the full blown qi gong practice I would like to. I did incorporate a few exercises and learned a lot, am still learning, and benefitted from the effort. It was a pleasure to share this time and space, reading over Storm's shoulder and sharing in our various lives.

Thank you for the company everyone. I've enjoyed and valued all your entries here. It's interesting, however, the things I shall miss. For example, I found my own day really hadn't started for me before I'd read the words, "Rolled out of bed and onto the cushion..." :-)

This reading thing is quite a gas, isn't it? ;-) Hesse was a challenge in some ways, and I learned a lot reading him, though mostly nothing I could have easily anticipated. And it was valuable to set aside times for non-habitual thinking. Coasting along, I can sometimes forget what it feels like to more fully engage my potential.

So when's the next communal 33 or 99 days? Seriously. When?

This little container and greeting ground is now over. Thanks to all who passed through and left imprints, sharing time in the gardens of their lives.

:)) Storm, Perhaps September is a good aim? It will be post-summer and a few months away.

I'm sad to have missed posting on the last day. I did sit, and was at the closing retreat session, but never got back here to write about it. This was a lovely reminder of the comfort and community of retreats, I enjoyed your comments even while I seldom replied.

Did I achieve what I set out to do? I'm going to say "no, but I did at least break the back of not sitting regularly" which I'm calling a success.

I'm with Storm: here's to the next Multiple-of-3-and-11 Days.

Oh so that was the last day? But its called 99 :)

Its been great to follow when I could and learned that life has its turns and ups and downs but in all that one can keep returning "home" - till one can see home in all ups and downs ... its really worth practising. It would be nice to have this longer - it was really helpful thank you all for the company, stories and teachings :) <3 edited 14:27, 31 May 2014