but, man. hi. on this coolish lovely summer night with cicadas making themselves heard in brooklyn, i am grateful for:
1) blue. i’ve been wearing a lot more blue and i’m kinda digging it.
2) the awesome yantra painting workshop i did last weekend at ananda ashram with sarah tomlinson. it took two full days and an evening and still not done. but such an intricate, oddly clearing practice. i have to finish painting mine, then will show and tell. we made the sri yantra which is all about the goddess and creative fertile everything.
3) that i have a complete proposal. omg.
4) that my mean yoga teacher won’t be teaching my morning class any more. so, it was decided for me.
5) feeling stronger, in bicep, in constitution
6) galactica mint coconut vegan ice cream
7) my landlord finally recaulking my sink and tub faucets that the handyman left dangling
8) that the writing has been flowing
9) walking by the $1 book cart outside the new local bookstore and picking up marianne williamson’s A Return to Love in hardback and reading the part about giving the love to yourself, because if you don’t relationships will be excruciating. and actually getting that at a deeper level. her writing is kind of harsh I’m noticing, very whap, whap. so if I get past feeling rebuked, I can get some nice shots of clarity from her.
10) and the above being odd because i just sent this to a friend today as a reminder: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
amen.
