Time these days feels long. The day feels long, rounds of sitting feel long, the weeks feel long. It's that time of year when I have the least on my calendar, the fewest commitments, and the shortest to-do list. It feels as how I imagine it would feel when the plane heads straight up and then stalls at 0g for a little bit before firing the engines and heading back down.
The garden is done, and all I have to do is set the sprinkler and deadhead a few things now and then. A friend invited me to come along tomorrow to hang out with him and his family for 4th of July festivities (parade in town, barbecue at his in-laws, etc.). In a little over a week I head to Rochester for a 7-day sesshin with nothing so much to do as face the wall. I'll come back to a couple of weeks of being somewhat laid up with cataract surgeries punctuated with a 2-day sesshin. When I'm not driving or sitting or doped up under the knife, I'll get a little reading done. I couldn't imagine a more open, relaxed calendar for the next 4-5 weeks.
I cherish these days. They help me recalibrate my dials, as it were. I have the mental and temporal space to do some clearing out, to gain some perspective, not in an active way but in a settling out way. A real vacation, as it were.
The garden is done, and all I have to do is set the sprinkler and deadhead a few things now and then. A friend invited me to come along tomorrow to hang out with him and his family for 4th of July festivities (parade in town, barbecue at his in-laws, etc.). In a little over a week I head to Rochester for a 7-day sesshin with nothing so much to do as face the wall. I'll come back to a couple of weeks of being somewhat laid up with cataract surgeries punctuated with a 2-day sesshin. When I'm not driving or sitting or doped up under the knife, I'll get a little reading done. I couldn't imagine a more open, relaxed calendar for the next 4-5 weeks.
I cherish these days. They help me recalibrate my dials, as it were. I have the mental and temporal space to do some clearing out, to gain some perspective, not in an active way but in a settling out way. A real vacation, as it were.
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