Arrr… A Pirate Day…Averted! in Everyday Ramblings

“I heard that Sri Krishnamacharya liked to say that when you are doing asana the quality of your attention should be similar to when you try to take a loose eyelash out of your eye.” Olga, my teacher posted this in her blog on Monday and I shared it with my students in class that morning.

I have been listening to an audio book by a well know yoga teacher and he talks extensively of using the body as a tool for meditation and a vehicle for arriving at higher awareness. This week I am having the opportunity to do just that.

Yesterday morning as I was waking up, Diego scooted over towards me, affectionately patted a paw on my face with his toes over my right eye and slowly…extruded the tip of a very sharp claw into it.

That got my attention.

Monday was a challenging day anyway. The regular bus I take over to teach was late and just blew by me with a wave. The bus that came ten minutes later was fine until we arrived at a corner across town and encountered an accident with a gentleman sitting upright in the middle of the street who had been knocked from a car waiting for an ambulance and then another car, gawking ran into a car backing up to get out of the way and the bus driver was talking to headquarters wouldn’t open the doors.

What an opportunity to work with anxiety and my ideas of how I want my day to go.

I was tired from the very long walk S. and I had done the day before and didn’t feel confident about the material I wanted to teach and had received an email on the bus that one of my students was with her son in ICU in respiratory distress in Seattle and couldn’t come…Her son in his mid forties with a couple of small children, lives rurally on an island and has lung cancer…

And there was work and then another class to teach all of which I got through but it was a very “the other” day. All my attention was focused out in the world and I had no opportunity to talk about my experiences or myself to anyone at all.

And then yesterday Diego scratched my eye.

And I spent the day forced to talk about myself. And him. :)

And a lot of time sitting in chairs with my eyes closed.

I talked to the resident who saw me and didn’t know what to do. Her attending. The clinic staff while I waited in the lobby for 40 minutes to hear from Ophthalmology who wanted to fit me in sometime to patch it. I had to tell people at work why I had to sign out and contact my coordinators at the hospital to admit that I couldn’t make it up to teach Caregivers in the evening. Then back to work and then back to the clinic and the pharmacy and…all day. All darn day.

So I am asking the universe please if I could have a little more balance please???

I am extremely lucky and Diego did not puncture my cornea. I have drops and ointment but in the end they did not have to patch my eye. Yippee! I have to go back tomorrow so they can measure the scratch and check for infection.

And tonight I need to decide if I am going to the Neighborhood Association meeting or a poetry reading both within a few blocks of my house.

But at least I don’t have to teach. And Diego and I have three mostly functional eyes between us rather than two. An embarrassment of riches.

Last updated October 07, 2015