Oh Look! Snow. Sigh in Everyday Ramblings

My new inside joke…Oh look! There is snow on the ground. I can tell the progress of the thaw my how much of my mud man is exposed. This was about an hour ago. This is Day 5 of the aftermath of our big storm.

Yesterday we had beautiful blue skies for most of the day and even with the snow and all the concomitant hassles related to mobility it did lift the spirits.

And speaking of lifted spirits, my shoe grippers are a miracle of human ingenuity and I am so incredibly grateful for them. On Friday afternoon I made it to the studio to teach and to the expensive depressing downtown grocery.

Coming home was a hassle but I was safe and stayed upright for the duration. Today I am going to try to go to church and the version of my favorite grocery about 15 minutes from there.

Where it is not packed down my street still has knee high snow and yesterday I saw an older woman driving down it with her phone propped on her steering wheel, texting.

When I shared this with Most Honorable yesterday he suggested that perhaps she was watching YouTube videos on how to drive in snow and ice.

I talked to a neighbor, maybe a few years older than me yesterday as I was out walking that was shoveling out her driveway and she said she was so ready to have it over and freedom of movement restored.

The one student that did make it to class on Friday (she felt spoiled because she didn’t have to share me) is retired and I was so proud of her because she went down to our city building that we have open as a warming shelter on Thursday and did a volunteer shift. She said they were incredibly well organized and I was so happy to hear that. It was 10 degrees below freezing when I came home and there were tents out on the sidewalk all along one of the streets I clumped along on. Lots of folks were toughing it out. One worries about frostbite.

I had to work overtime pretty much everyday last week and yesterday not having to work at all felt so incredibly liberating. This meditation challenge I am doing (Day 15, go me) has a bunch of other practices offered as prep for a stable and easy practice session and I was able to get through a bunch of those yesterday and got some good ideas for teaching.

Diego sat with me every day. One day he was late but he made it.

Of course my mind wanders when I meditate. It is interesting to discover that almost always it wanders to a student and what I can share with him or her. I had no idea I spent that much time thinking about this.

At least I don’t think about my hat hair or the frustrations of not being able to provision with one’s favorite brands or really the underlying deep hum of unease with the inauguration coming up which is the seemingly earth shaking note reverberating through the world.

The Return of the Robber Barons…

My ex-husband’s father died yesterday. He was a great guy and all his kids adored him. I liked him so much better than my dad. It is sad for them. My dad has been gone 32 years. I think about how different life would be having a father one liked in the picture all that time.

I still use my married name and we keep in touch on Facebook. My ex and I are quite fond of each other. I keep a low profile though because, understandably, his current wife wishes I were not in the picture.

By midday Tuesday we should be free to move around the cabin without restraint. In complete concert with my neighbor I cannot wait!

Last updated January 15, 2017