Thursday, March 26, 2009

Snow at last!


The world is growing more and more white as the morning continues and my heart sings. We needed the moisture but deeper than that my soul relishes snow!


Here is Adorable Tim's response to the early morning cold. He faithfully gets up with me when I get up early to meditate... but his meditation is to become a "perfect zen circle of a cat!" How he tucks up so tightly I will never know!

I wrote a poem once when I was quite young that I am remembering this morning. It is about how much I love winter:

The last of winter's children
Dances on the sand
In her father's tattered clothing
Dancing with the wind

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Spring is coming


I haven't written for awhile. My life has been full of new things and old ones. I am still getting used to attending a Christian Church after all these years of considering myself a Buddhist. But I have been missing 'community' and at this church, I have found welcome, tolerance for my Buddhist leanings, friendly people, ritual, music, and movie night! I watch through different eyes than I had as a child as a congregation walks through its religious life. I am looking for gold nuggets I may have overlooked in the past.
In two days I also begin a 100 day virtual Soto Zen Buddhist meditation retreat for which I have been preparing for the past two weeks - starting to sit again, getting the schedule of my life in order, starting to eat more simply and organically, buying a webcam and signing up for Skype. "WHAT?" I hear you say. "Part of getting ready for a meditation retreat involves setting up video calling?"

Yes, what a surprise! But this is how the meditation master I am going to be working with (who lives in Minnesota, and I live in Colorado) works with his students in personal meetings. Very interesting! I have my first fact-to-fact meeting on Saturday!

Lastly, it has been hard for me to be very productive in my business of late. Grief about the losses I experienced in 2008 has finally started arising to the surface but... it is good... and it is time. I just need to work with it.

It seems early... but the little flowers have started to bloom!