Went camping last weekend. First night was solo. Best one of those yet. Kay appeared the next day. The day after that, friends came. Some stayed for dinner, some for breakfast. It was all quite glorious. One morning I was up ahead of the rest. I made a fire and put the kettle over it.
To see the reason I am blogging about this short animation of the diaphragm and rib cage in action, check out the view from underneath that begins at :51. See the holes? Here’s what the voice over says… “As seen from below, we get a sense of the full range of motion of the diaphragm
This might look like a photograph of a third-floor hallway at the Rio in Las Vegas, where I am living for a couple weeks, at the World Series of Poker. But it’s more than that. It’s where I go when I want to feel like I’m not going anywhere, but it’s hard to, because I’m
Gonnagowalkin Look up and around Gonnagowalkin And notice the ground Gonnagowalkin Stepping and breathing Gonnagowalkin Bridle the seething Gonnagowalkin And sit by the creek Gonnagowalkin Seems the sky sprung a leak Gonnagowalkin Watch myself blinking Gonnagowalkin Gaze at my thinking Gonnagowalkin With trees in a puddle Gonnagowalkin With selfs in a huddle Gonnagowalkin And sit
“I started paying attention to my breathing and it made everything worse.”
The meaning of “reconcile” in play here is “to make consistent or congruous.” In other words… How can someone walk the path of harmlessness if it has poker tables on it? Let’s say there’s a guy who plays poker, and he starts meditating every morning and doing mindfulness stuff all day long and reading about
Before last week, my favorite bumper sticker was: Atheists are beyond belief. That one has held the top spot for something like 15 years. And then I heard this one, in a talk Jon Kabat-Zinn gave to a room full of Google employees. (You can see the whole talk on YouTube.) Here’s the saying… Meditation:
Here’s a picture I took on my way to Vegas. (You can click on these pictures for full size viewing.) I was on the left side of the plane, heading south. I think this picture is very cool because of the low altitude. My flights to Vegas start out going north from San Francisco Airport,
