Dear friends-
I did it. I swam from Martha Washington to Seward Park with Robb on a paddle board beside me. I alternated between anxiety, fear, elation and calm. The water was mostly calm with some wavy bits. I found myself grinning the closer and closer I got to the shoreline. It's about 1/2 mile, I guess. No soreness the next day either. I am officially a badass.
Now next challenge...swim a longer distance, right?
Sweet young Nik came over and tiled my backsplash in 2 days. Beautiful. However getting the outlets back into the spaces he left has presented a challenge for me to solve. Ah well.
Starting a mindfulness based childbirth class tonight, goes all weekend. Unfortunately the blue angels (yuck, nothing about them is angelic) will be overhead. They are 30 BILLION dollars fighter jets that do formations in the sky directly over our neighborhood. They are incredibly LOUD and scary. This happens every year.
Just visited an Olmstead park in my old neighborhood. The Volunteer coordinator contacted me because I'm looking for volunteer hours for chaplaincy. And she wants me to initiate sitting/walking meditations (!) among the greenhouses and the gorgeous trees, some of which are more than 100 years old. There's even a gigantic sequoia on the grounds. I am screaming, I'm so excited. What she/they want is exactly what I want to be doing. The one catch is making $$ for the park, after a two year shut down, they're pretty broke. I can ask for dana donations. I of course, require no $$. We also talked about bringing in folks who need to rest their anxious/fearful minds and hearts from the current fuckery, to allow them to rest and give and get love from the trees. The conservatory is gorgeous too and we walked through the back lot where the maturing plants are.
Well, time for a swim in my big momma lake. Sooooo grateful she is so near by.
Pema Chodron, in the new edition of When Things Fall Apart, reminds us the this moment is the path, just this moment with its' misery, joy, confusion, anger and peace. The only path we're on. This living moment.
May we all walk with awareness in this present and precious moment.
Much big love.
4 comments:
Oh, you glorious being! Your light is shining so brightly right now. I love seeing you in that picture, I love knowing that you are helping others in these tough times. I love imagining you in that park under the beautiful old trees.
Wow! The joy of swimming. The joy of walking together. In awareness. Thank you!
Well done with the swim!!!
I want to hug you -- both for swimming that distance (bravo!) and for speaking about the Blue Angels -- not with admiration but the opposite. I always feel curmudgeonly about fighter jets and airshows and all that nonsense. I hate them. Thank you, too, for the Pema advice. I need it right now, this very moment, this day.
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