thought puzzles

[thoreau]

9:49 on a Tuesday - and I have officially reached the "omg I'm so over packing and moving" point. to which I responded with a walk with Miss Kate out into Duboce Park and some silence.

I sat out in the dark playing with Miss Kate in the grass...... well, until a police cruiser came by and hit me with his search light thinking Kate and I were homeless campers. :(

budmassey? you with me here? is Waldenism the journey or the destination - is it a physical cabin by a pond or the simplification of your life and spirit so that a cabin by the pond exists in your soul?

I met notdefined at the new Muffin Penthouse Suite this afternoon - the sun was blinding but the "meditation blue" wall and the brand new appliances and the view had me smiling uncontrollably.

I just need to get through the next few days and I've conquered this latest plateau in my life.

it's going to take patience and not "anxietizing" things. if there was ever a time for meditation - it's now.

Brett (septimuswarren) posted to his journal a quote from the essay "The Season of My Grandfather," by Michelle Cacho-Negrete:

"I'd learned from my mother and grandfather not to judge people's love by whether they gave me what I wanted, but by whether they gave me what they were capable of giving"

The "e" word or expectations has ALWAYS been my biggest stumbling block - and judging others when they failed to reach or achiev my expectations or what I thought I was going to get or what I was expecting to get from them.....

So the Cacho-Negrete quote has been like an mental tsunami - -

that is shouldn't be about "did I get what I want?" - but "did I willfully receive what others around me were capable of giving?"

serious thought puzzle.

Comments

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Moving isn't fun, is it? But just be methodical with realistic, manageable targets for each day and you'll get through it . .

[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Those shoes RULE!

[ruralrob.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'm a bit of a shoe fanatic . .