Life as a lab

From Life as a Lab, May 22

Pema Pera: really beginning to drop time and identity — but that sounds too philosophical — let me try more directly . . . .
Pema Pera: I asked Maxine to image a world without beings
Pema Pera: without beings that are needy and feel they have to worry . . . .
Pema Pera: and without time
Pema Pera: enclosing you in a small present in between past and future
Pema Pera: so imagine
Pema Pera: no worries
Pema Pera: no possibility for worries!
Pema Pera: only celebration
Pema Pera: continuous play continous festival of celebration . . .
Pema Pera: . . . only responsibility to celebrate
Pema Pera: everything else a play/joke/game, albeit quite serious in a way
Caledonia Heron: gosh, you’ll thing this silly - it sounds like the life of a well loved dog
Pema Pera has no idea whether anything like that makes any sense
Pema Pera: hahaha
Pema Pera: you know, Cal, haha
Maxine Walden: everything else to be more lightly taken, perhaps? Love the image of the well-loved dog!
Pema Pera: that reminds me of a fun exchange I had a few years ago
Caledonia Heron: all they have to do is show up to eat, lay around, chase squizzles, get loved
Pema Pera: I wrote a manuscript called Life as a Lab
Maxine Walden: lol
Pema Pera: I meant Laboratory
Maxine Walden: not Labrador
Pema Pera: but a friend thought I meant Life as a
Pema Pera: yes
Pema Pera: you guessed it!
Maxine Walden: (laughs)

We each filled in part of `life as a lab’.

Caledonia Heron: Life as a Labrador - love it….it’s full of zzzz’s and chomp chomp chomp
Pema Pera: the circle is closed
Maxine Walden: tail wags
Caledonia Heron: woof
Maxine Walden: ball chasing
Pema Pera: laying on your back and being scratched to your heart’s content
Maxine Walden: slurps of a loving tongue
Caledonia Heron: chasing your tail…over and over…like it’s the first time
Maxine Walden: ball play forever…
Pema Pera: looking out of big brown eyes
Maxine Walden: three balls in the mouth at a time, if possible
Caledonia Heron: button nose
Maxine Walden: yes, those seductive eyes
Maxine Walden: cold button nose
Caledonia Heron: one ear up, one ear down
Pema Pera: walking into the sprinlers on the lawn, then shaking it all off
Caledonia Heron: yes, I get the celebration of no worries….
Caledonia Heron: lol
Pema Pera: hahaha
Maxine Walden: yes, and when you are a kid, you put both ears of the Lab up so he/she can ‘go to the opera’ and the Lab puts up with it patiently
Pema Pera: what fun
Caledonia Heron: ha! biting the spray from the hose
Caledonia Heron: lol - dogs love opera!
Maxine Walden: oh, yes, they really do