New Place

My blog is coming from a new place, I think it is some sunny beach somewhere. Yeah that's it. If I can't get anyone except my sweet loyal spouse to respond to my blog at least I can have a nice place to write in. According to the blog layout ad this should cause more people to view my blog because it will catch their eyes. Well we will see.

We have snow. It has been a long time getting here. It is colder here also. I don't remember waiting until mid January for snow my whole life and that is a lot of life. We had a brief one day melted snow earlier but nothing that seemed like winter. May be it is here at last.

Let me know what you think of the beach.

Even though I feel this is just going out into the blogosphere to float among other blogs and no one ever sees it, since I don't get comments, I am writing anyway. My meditation teacher would say that my ego is hurt and she would be right. I will let my conscience rule and write because I can. Who knows I might have something to say. Yesterday I went to a meeting with Mathew Flickstein who is getting funding to do a documentary for PBS about the world's religions. His premise is to show that even thought there are many religions in essence they all agree on the important stuff, or something like that. It was very refreshing to spend time with Matt. He was so honest and thoughtful. There was no pretense, no game playing. Very different from so many encounters. He gave us time to meditate and that evening I went to my yoga class which always ends with meditation. So yesterday I had two opportunities to be quiet. Today I noticed that it was easier to find a moment to be still and concentrate on my breath. It made me think about becoming more dedicated to daily meditation. I do it now but it consists of sitting in bed before going to sleep and I usually end it soon after I begin.

Yesterday was also my #3 grandgirl's birthday. She was bouncing around the house as usual. She liked the toy cell phone and outfit I gave her. After she played with it for a short time she asked, "Are there more presents?" What a kid. I think her birthday comes too close to Christmas.

Pray

I am very concerned about the future of this country. We have a very scary leader. He wants to keep this war going and he wants to kill more of our young men. A woman just called in to NPR to say her husband was called for service when he had been honorably discharged some years ago. Are they so desperate they will take anyone? Perhaps it was an error. I hope so. Possibly the only way to stop this insanity is to do what we did during Viet Nam. Peace marches. If we hit the streets in D.C. they will have to do something. The other possibility is to get Bush a psychiatrist. He probably wouldn't keep his appointments. I will pray that a ray of sanity penetrates his thick skull. We must all pray.