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wanting to be here wanting to be here time and place friday 16 may 2008 new place i m blogging here now come on over www wanting2behere2 blogspot com posted by mm at 20 50 1 comment friday 7 march 2008 signs and sitting if you are meditating and somewhere within earshot interesting things are going on you will find your mind going there to check it out no problem if you do not resist the process your attention will of its own accord return to your focus your breath or your own thoughts and sensations lorin roche meditation made easy page 123 i ve been tagged by neith with the astroblogger meme variations of this have been floating around for a little while but this is a first for me while i don t blog about astrology per se not knowledgeable or orderly minded enough i am a keen amateur practitioner so stealing leslee s phrase this blog has something of an astroflavour here it is 1 pick up the nearest book of at least 123 pages 2 open the book to page 123 3 find the fifth sentence 4 post the next three sentences 5 tag five people it s been necessary to bend the rules never let me go was definitely the nearest book to hand but only has two short paragraphs at the end of a chapter on page 123 and too few sentences at a second attempt i found three sentences on page 123 of a basic beginner s meditation guide this book s great virtue is the emphasis on keeping things simple and enjoying the practice and given the large dollop of inquisitive gemini in my birthchart plus a mercurial virgo ascendant the passage quoted is particularly helpful unless i m ill or travelling i sit pretty much every morning just for fifteen minutes or so but it s become an intrinsic part of my day while i m not a buddhist sometimes i wish i could sign up for something but that s a topic for another post their meditation techniques work for me so there i am in front of my altar the thinking part galloping into the past and future the meditative part noticing the fact then trying to bring the focus back to the breath where it stays for at least five seconds in the silence and space thoughts and feelings rise to the surface then fall away insights occur and truth asks to be faced for this quarter of an hour i am physically quiet and still even if inwardly agitated and there is comfort and strength in that it can be very peaceful sitting at the window with the faint background sounds of my neighbours starting their days very very occasionally i do approach that place that lies beyond thought other days there is restlessness and frustration and the whole thing seems as rewarding and fulfilling as watching paint dry yet i d no more leave the house without brushing my teeth than skip this i m groping for a final sentence to explain why i sit because i must just because i m not going to tag anyone but if you d like to do the meme with any slant or none leave a note in the comments posted by mm at 11 09 8 comments labels astrology books meditation meme sunday 2 march 2008 perspectives compared to the daunting size of some london art galleries the welsh national collection is built on a human scale the few rooms are relatively small so it is possible to do them all justice in a couple of hours and then if you wish to make a day of it and take in the museum part of the building just how museums and galleries ought to be having been duly beguiled by renoir and rendered nostalgic by sisley i was jolted awake by a welsh artist new to me kevin sinnott for a start who could resist a painting with such a title i love its size and energy the crazy perspective and the unanswered questions e g why aren t they holding hands after many months of almost no book reading i ve just finished kazuo ishiguro s never let me go set in a dark version of the 1990s the story unfolds at a slow painstaking pace and at the end left me uncomfortable but goodness it should be read it won t be a hardship either as the book is beautifully written and from one perspective it is purely about human relationships and how we are each of us influenced and dominated by our pasts that which isn t explained or which just filters through to the reader as to the main protagonist and her fellow students is the most chilling part of all the visit to the welsh national gallery allowed enough time to take in the cardiff bay development the photo was taken at the water sculpture yesterday without the water and i wasn t the only photographer to be attracted by its hall of mirrors potential it can make you visible yet invisible a little like a blog more photos here posted by mm at 15 08 11 comments labels art exploration spring wales wednesday 27 february 2008 arrival the tulips were blowsy and past their best that lunchtime last april when our van pulled up outside the house but the splash of colour of the two toned red and yellow flowers in the front garden was welcoming as i struggled out of the passenger seat clutching the cat basket i had hardly slept the previous night and it had been a four hour journey the cat poor thing had protested loudly until we reached ross when he had no choice but to give in to the call of nature we pulled over and bill went for a cigarette while i did the necessary my sister had the bright idea of using incontinence pads one to start the journey with plus a couple of replacements in case of such an occurrence at the base of his basket l was apprehensive that i wouldn t be able to find the key for the front door the bunch of keys we had collected half an hour earlier from the estate agent s offices in town seemed more suited in size to fort knox than a modest semi my fears were of course unjustified it transpired that there were three copies of each one sally the estate agent at probably half my age had asked if i would mind waiting while a colleague popped out to the local florist to buy a pink hyacinth as a house warming present this may have been company policy but i was touched and found it a niche on a sunny windowsill after unloading the boxes and cartons bill set off home to sussex the furniture in storage locally was delivered shortly afterwards water gas and electricity all worked i released the cat from his portable prison drank a mug of tea read the meters and made arrangements with a friend to go shopping for a washing machine and fridge the following day oh and did a bit of unpacking all surprisingly straightforward after the stress of the previous months that freezing weather of a few weeks back is past for now sunlight floods the garden and a strong wind blows from the south west the daffodils are in full flower and those red and yellow tulips are opening nearly eleven months later the sight of them once again outside the kitchen window drawn upwards inexorably through the dark earth by warmth and light leaves me jubilant and relieved this spring the signs of change and rebirth have particular resonance posted by mm at 20 50 9 comments labels cat flower home sunday 24 february 2008 moderation an interesting week and it looks as if the coming seven days will have their moments as well nothing like a total lunar eclipse to stir things up none of it bears blogging about for the moment but it s been a reminder that life is nothing if unpredictable thanks for the comments on the previous post one of the things that gives blogging its fascination is the ability that it affords to chronicle and celebrate a few moments of an icy dank february morning in a country town in the marches the creation of a post allows me the space to contemplate and experience my own world more deeply and thoughtfully and i can share the moments with others worldwide most of whom i will probably never meet blogging as a creative and meditative tool creating an invisible spider s web of links across the planet as we exchange pieces of our lives and there are millions of us doing it all those webs i need to limit my time on the internet though often i m tempted not to mostly i manage to find the balance when i don t my wellbeing suffers it comes back to the concept of moderation not my natural home and not where i ve spent a good part of my life but heaven knows the alternative is counterproductive i m getting older and increasingly body mind and soul need me to aim for a state of equilibrium however unfamiliar this may feel i can t afford to waste these years because i can t resist a couple of other photographs of those murky beautiful days to see enlarged versions of these or any of the pictures on the blog click on the photograph and go into flickr then select all sizes posted by mm at 19 30 9 comments labels blog meditation photograph tuesday 19 february 2008 monochrome almost we ve been experiencing some of the lowest night temperatures in the uk clear night skies and heavy frosts combined with early morning fog means the dawn becomes a study in shades of grey any stretch of open water that doesn t move freezes over and the pigeons wait for the sun to break through when it does the contrast is almost shocking colour everywhere bright clear glowing posted by mm at 09 35 8 comments labels birds herefordshire saturday 16 february 2008 new job i think it s going to work out i m getting to grips with the charity s fiendishly complex database remembering names and telephone extensions the people seem nice and the short working week is good part of the job is to upload information onto the computer system and it s impossible not to be aware of the human beings behind the statistics elderly men and women in nursing homes in most cases suffering from dementia who can no longer care for themselves and whose families can no longer care for them as i work i wonder about their lives the contrast between then and now whether they are aware of what has happened to them and what about the families who are forced to take decisions for which they cannot know the outcome to choose between painful often less than perfect options unlike a few of my friends i ve never had to face this situation both my mother and grandmother were as sharp as tacks when they died in their eighties my father was confused but not to the extent that he couldn t function so i ve started a routine of wishing each person peace as i load the details of their lives onto the database it s the one thing that i can do today has been a peaceful and ordered one productive without being manic social but with quiet times most of the items on the list i drew up this morning have been ticked off feelings come and go it s ok photograph eastgate clock chester posted by mm at 19 26 9 comments labels work older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me mm 70 plus female view my complete profile my flickr home page where i used to live my old blog blog archive 2008 17 may 1 new place march 2 february 7 january 7 2007 29 december 6 november 3 august 1 july 3 june 4 may 10 april 2 world kiva local greenlinks