I was talking to a friend the other day; she thinks in addition to that monkey mind rattling around in our heads is a lizard brain. This one driven not by incessant thinking and chatter, but by primordial instinct and emotion. Continue reading
Day 6 – weapons of peace
Whew. Well that’s much better.
Started my day off with a great desire to just crawl out of my own skin and walk out of my life (if I could have just figured out some way to take my coffee with me). Cat spitting air punching mad at everything. Continue reading
Enlightenment and Shit
Coming down from the mountaintop of enlightenment…I slipped in some shit.
It’s one thing to be in a space of equanimity and loving kindness for all humanity when you’re sitting in meditative solitude. It’s quite another to be full of peace and goodwill when you’re tired and late and just trying to get a few things from the grocery store and they’ve been doing renos and you can’t frickin’ find anything and you finally take your carefully chosen eleven items to the express checkout only to get yelled at by the guy behind you because as you are just now realizing this is now the FIVE item express checkout and you suddenly discover suck my rocks is now in your interpersonal repertoire which is funny ‘cause you’re a girl and you don’t have any rocks and you wonder if that phrase has any weight when your girl bits don’t actually have any… well… weight.
Um..yeah…but, I digress. Continue reading
Sohbet – Late Night Street Sweeper
late night
street sweeper rumbles by
dust cloud, streetlight lit
glows like midnight fog
Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off
A Hawksley Workman song has been running around in my mind: Your Beauty Must Be Rubbing Off. The theme behind it (or at least the one I’m feeling right now) is the idea what you love and admire in somebody else can foster those traits in you. Continue reading
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