It was early April 2017. I was sitting in an Airbnb in Portland, OR. My wife and I had returned to the city that had been our home for eight years, to sort out a storage room of our belongings, to decide what was going with us back to Maui and what we were going to sell. I had decided to start a podcast to help people start and build a meditation practice.
I’ll get there!
When @jean interviewed me for Micro Monday back in May 2019, Jean asked me if I would host a Podcast. Today I was on the home stretch of resurrecting a Podcast that I last ran in 2017, but a Micro.blog hosting issue has delayed that. Fingers crossed soon 🤞🏻
Last night we watched Before You Know It, and enjoyed it. A good, light comedy set in New York. 🍿
Some days appear to move easily, like a hot knife through butter, and others feel like walking through treacle. Today was like the latter. I put some of that just down to the how the world is right now.
We were recommended to watch the movie Babyteeth and did so last night. Up until the recommendation I had never heard of it, but now highly recommend it myself. An Australian movie, beautifully acted by all involved. 🍿
I just want to give a shout out of gratitude to the Micro.blog community for how they have helped me (unknowingly) in putting together how I manage my daily tasks, and to @patrickrhone for his Dash/Plus system - Managing my Life.
On January 1st, with a new month here, never mind a new year, I worked through my December todos, seeing what was undone and bringing those items forward to January. This is not my Bullet Journal, rather it is a hybrid system that I have been cobbling together from a number of different systems. It has taken me a while to get here, but I am feeling more comfortable than I have done for a long while in managing my life and for that I am grateful.
Heading out to a remote part of the West Mauis this afternoon to lead a meditation for a dear friend.
Question to self,
Where does play show up in my life?
As a follow up,
If it is not present, what is getting in the way?
This evening.
I don’t know if I will make it to New Year (still 11 hours to go here)? I rarely do. But my wife and I are planning on dinner and a movie - I’m not sure what yet, and so any recommendations gratefully received.
For me over the last few years this week between Christmas and New Year has just felt very lllooonnnggg. With the weekends tagged on, it is feeling longer this year. At the end of a difficult year, time off feels good, AND I’ll be ready to get back to a more normal week.
I’m just catching up with the sad news of Barry Lopez passing away on Christmas Day at the age of 75, from prostate cancer. I am grateful to have seen him twice give talks. Both times I could have sat for hours with a single sentence shared, meditating on the wisdom within it.
We found a quiet, empty and very small hideaway yesterday, admits what I thought were troublingly crowded beaches (we almost turned around and went home). In the distance is the island of Kaho’olawe, and just in front I could make out the water spouts of whales.
Just next to where we were sitting was this old lava tube. I imagined red hot molten lava pouring out of it and into the ocean, many moons ago.
The smell of freshly cut grass drifts over from next door, alongside the roar of the lawn mower. I am transported back to summer evenings of my youth, and memories of my father mowing the back garden on a Sunday evening, while distant church bells call worshipers.
My wife and I just spent the afternoon watching Pixar’s new movie Soul, an exploration of life, death and meaning. Imaginative storytelling alongside wonderful animation. I find it amazing to see where animation has got to.🍿
Movie watching just got bumped forward to this afternoon. The clouds have come in, the wind has picked up and the rain is thundering down on the roof. 💨🌧 We are putting our feet up this afternoon. 🍿
There’s been a lot of activity, and eating, over the last couple of days. I am ready for a movie this evening…nothing else.
This was accidently posted to the wrong blog. Correcting the error and date now: Waking up to the white egrets flying east for their day. Home for them appears to be somewhere west of us, and the days are spent on the eastern edge of the island. Merry Christmas to you all. 🎄