Tying Up Loose Ends

Day 80:

Twenty more days to go! I managed two squares today. Granny squares take longer than hearts and flowers. I saw more horned larks up at at High Point today.

This is Play Week at school, so often students are called out to practice during class time. Today, I was left with one student for about an hour. What a great opportunity to just listen to what is important to this about-to-graduate brilliant human. I am going to miss this class.

I am taking an online mindfulness course these days, with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. That, and the mindfulness practices in the wellness app I get through my health insurance, are helping me to inhabit time more thoughtfully and mindfully. The last couple sessions have been like Rumi’s “Guesthouse,” looking at emotions as they arise, naming them, bowing to them as guests, and being present with them.

I think of myself as a fairly grounded and mindful person, pretty self-regulated in general, and still, I have so much to learn about living in the moment; perhaps my sense that I am already comfortably mindful means that I have lots of learning ahead. Interestingly, Rob Brezsny’s post this week was about not getting dogmatic about the mindfulness of the moment, but doing that work in the context of recognizing one’s history of pain and trauma. Both. And. I love when synchronicity brings me messages about the thing I am working on at the moment.

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