HOW TO SNAP OUT OF IT
Receive a call from India just before Midnight NYE
Zzzzzzzz
Wake up. Eat fruit. Pay estimated taxes. Clear off desk. Go back to sleep.
Make calls to friends.
Water plants.
Chai up.
Write.
Practice, ending with Chandra Om's half-hour guided Yoga Nidra (savasana)
Sit.
Pet the cat.
Make Hoppin' John and greens.
Write.
Watch the snow fall.
Make calls.
Eat.
Talk on phone.
Receive invitations to visit friends. Notice near-blizzard conditions outside. Decline.
Take down Xmas tree.
Finish watching Taming of the Shrew
Start sorting through / purging videos. Call Gridlife. Learn that some are worth $24.99 and up.
Make more calls.
Clean out bathroom cabinet.
Start watching Shakespeare Wallah
Write short-term goals in brand-new journal.
Read a chapter from The Mastery of Love.
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
Wake up at 5:15AM. Chai up. Clean up.
Trudge half-mile in -3 windchill to snow-encrusted car.
Car starts!
Did you know that a foreign defense contractor will be tallying the votes of the Iowa caucuses? And that there is no Immediate and Auditable Paper Trail?
ReplyDeleteThe car started because it is a Honda
ReplyDeleteThey say the devil is in the details but paying attention to the little moments and their particulars can bring clarity and sometimes even contentment.
ReplyDeleteKeep on movin' don't stop no!
That's what my mother used to say: "It's the simple pleasures."
ReplyDeleteShe also used to say, when things got rough,
"Endure."
They don't accept US dollars at the Taj Mahal anymore. And the US dollar is at a 9 year low v the Rupee.
ReplyDeleteThe Rupee for C. sakes.
Guruji stopped accepting dollars in 2004.
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