The Summer Passing

The new academic year is now officially underway.  As people approach me and ask, "How was your summer?" I find that I'm smiling broadly and saying, "It was a great summer."  And it was.  All manner of good things seem to be going on now that weren't just a few months ago.  A sangha member noted to me just yesterday morning just how differently I was carrying myself, how clearly at ease I am in ways I hadn't been.  "You're really feeling it, aren't you?" he asked.  "Oh yeah," I said, "no doubt about it."

Just more causes and conditions, though.  Nothing to hold on to, nothing even to let go of.