christmas awake, christmas asleep, fun game

Beautiful Marlie and her father "Pa"/Lou


we can
i can
be awake
around other
people

or asleep

it makes a
big
difference

Happy Thursday

we won't do this in Sufia Yoga,
and you can get closer and closer
much more easily and faster if you join the Sufia Yoga fun

cold after the rain
sweet and clear
winter is finally here

and the waters
sweet waters
good for us

and the christmas thing
how slow
can we go

how often
to remember our breathing

how exciting
to sense
our worry or hurry
and come out of that
into noticing
feet and ground and gravity

and ribs and belly and breathing

and necks and heads free and light

all good

all now

all wonderful

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more on Sufia Yoga,
later,
hopefully a free new year's day class

we'll see

Christmas coming, the geese are getting worried, parenting Wed,

one day
we
will all be dead

apparently
one day
a long time ago
or long long
time ago
depending on your sense of timing
the Jesus child was born

he was clear on His life's purpose:
to be one with God
to speak for God
to help people find the Kingdom of Heaven within
to try to put out this radical message:
love your neighbor
love your enemy

a big job he/ He set out to do
and with some miracles to jazz up the interest
and some good parables
and a great salesman (Paul)
some of his/ His stuff and ideas are
still around

and some days
we love our neighbors
and love our enemies
and even
gasp
love our selves

wednesday is
"supposed" to be about parenting:

well,
sometimes the little shits
seem like enemies
and then
we have to remember:
whose idea was it to bring them into the world
and
what is it that they don't understand
and
what is it that we don't understand
about how we are contributing
to their being
in one of their awful states

and then,
as always,
when we learn how we are asleep
and operating out of habit
and control programs
and forgetting to listen,
we can breathe
and be
now
and listen to them
and our own life

and then we can be happy
and when we are really happy
the enemy thing
dissolves

and if this doesn't work
then the work will

ciao
chris

6 awareness days left until Christmas

Ah,
to be aware while
browsing the stores

ah
to be aware of the guilt
obligation
habit
routine
and fear stuff
nagging away to
buy more
give more
do more

ah
to say no
to an invitation
or two

ah,
to say yes
to an invitation
or two

where do we want
to be present
and following our breathing

and remembering the three oceans:
gravity
calling on bones and brain and pelvis
how are we "grounded"
what is our weight doing
right now

and air
our lungs inside the rib cage
or can it be
a rib basket

and light, sound, taste, smell
the joys of a head
mobile and free at the neck
looking left
and right
even now
on the computer
keep the eyes forward and let your
nose
go up and down
and right and left
and following your breathing
and know
about your pelvis
and be
in love
with the you
right now

what else to do?
love others
love the earth

does that have anything
to do with Christmas?
it certainly could have.

and does awareness have
anything to do
with our ability to love?

yes