I like being in art galleries in the same way I like being in churches. And I like having no idea why.
“If we have one job in times like this, it is to be bearers, through our careful grief, of love, of grace, of light even, into this present darkness.”
So, made it into work after all, dodging lots of standing water most of the way. Thought it would be much worse. Just goes to show you never can tell.
The brook now running brown and a little faster and higher. Another twelve hours of this rain and we’ll have a full on raging torrent and widespread flooding. Chance of making it to work in the morning? 50/50 I’m guessing.
“It boils down to waking up moment to moment. Being present, open, unprotected. Allowing the tenderness, the heartbreak, the vulnerability, the love, and the wonder. The mind can make it all very complicated, but it’s really so very simple.”
— Joan Tollifson
Wet and windy out there so keeping warm and dry indoors watching the footie. Newcastle flying against Forest. Expecting similar from Liverpool vs. City later…
“And that to me is the healthy heart of contemplation (a.k.a. meditation). It’s an allowing. It’s a participation in the living truth that’s always already here, before we even have thoughts or names for it. And it’s embrace with that. It’s a participation with that, and in that, and as that. Contemplation is allowing an embrace from a more original state of affairs, an always already there naturalness. A matter-of-fact wonder of life as it is, ‘before’ we have a technique or an idea about things.”
— Prof. Michael Sheehy
Lovely evening watching our favourite local band, Peiriant, play a homecoming gig. And, bonus, discovered the local brewery have a new beer out!
What a glorious sunny day. Yoga, coffee, fixed gutter, coffee, fires, logs, laundry, 5k run, lunch and now taking the ancient hound for an incredibly slow walk round the church yard…
Torrential rain tomorrow and flooding in all probability so making the most of what’s here now.
”Now is simply now. You are simply you. And tell me, since you want to leave the place where you are, where is it exactly you want to go?”
— ‘Homeless’ Kodo Sawaki
The whole idea of so-called ‘Productivity’ is, not only just plain bullshit, but a distraction from just getting on with stuff.
As I periodically do from time to time, I’ve mercilessly stripped out loads of feeds from my Reader. Feels good. Experimenting with just my absolute fave ten sources in Sublime Feed (‘cos it’s free and I’m cheap!)
Boredom is wanting something that isn’t there. Contentment is having everything when nothing is there.