Weather

New days. The past few have been spectacular. Low humidity, bright sunny skies, temps in the mid-80s. True southern California living here in Maryland. People who know me aren't surprised to hear me talk about the weather. I'm the reason for the success of the Weather Channel!

Are you affected by the weather? Are you blue when it rains? Feel like you might have SAD in the winter? Really like being in the light?


Amidst the grassland
Sings a skylark
Free and disengages from all things.
- Matsuo Basho

Do Without the Judgment

     Can you do this, even for an hour - not to compute all the incoming data, the physical aspects, the emotional content, the facial expression? Can you be at peace in someone's presence without having to assign a bottom line calculated to be where they are?

     Take the snowstorm from February, 2010. I found myself having a judgement about it before it even arrived, something as funamental and elemental as a weather event. It was going to be terrible and inconvenient and disruptive!  I think I could have moved through the event much more easily if I had allowed the storm to just be, it didn't need me to comment on it. I think I would have been better served if I had let myself just register that there was a storm, recognize it for just what it was. My being in the world would have been much lighter if I hadn't had to append "terrible", "obstacle", and "mess" to the event.

      Next time.

6,000 steps, 162 lbs

When you're through changing. . . you're through. - Bruce Barton