I’ve been practicing Om meditation for 079 days in a row. I’m pretty settled in on 8 minutes.

I still have trouble quieting the “monkey mind”. I have good days and bad days, but I wonder what someone else would be experiencing after 1079 days.

I tell others that the most important thing about meditating is to make the time and do it consistently, which I do very well.

do you meditate? Do you feel that the monkey mind intrudes more or less than normal, or do you not worry about it at all? I wouldn’t say I’m “worried about” it, but it’s something that I wonder about. Sometimes it annoys me when the monkey mind won’t shut up, and I’m trying to make it.

I have a dental appointment today, it’s only April, and my insurance is already maxed out. So I’ll be grudgingly paying the full amount out of my pocket for a cleaning.

Have a great day!

It’s another Monday..I had a productive weekend. The apartment is almost ready to be rented again. I have to have the washing machine serviced.

it rained a teeny tiny bit here at the house, it rained a lot everywhere else. Hundred yards north the road was soaked. 100 yards south the road is soaked and full of puddles. Barely a sprinkle at the house though.

I had breakfast Sunday with my favorite yoga teacher. He thought beach yoga for the first time in a long time..

that’s about it, not much going on trying to study my yoga teacher training at the same time maintaining the house and animals and work.

Above is Goldie and Knip.

Have a great day and a fantastic week!

Explain this to me if you understand it.

Suppose you’re walking down the road, and all of a sudden, a snarling dog comes out of the bushes, trying to bite your ankles. You feel fear. Real.fear of physical injury in the here and now.

Supposed you’re laying in bed. You make a mistake on a report yesterday and you’re afraid you’re going to get in trouble at work tomorrow. No chance of physical injury, not immediate fear in the here and now.

What’s the difference?

Have a great weekend !

I had to uninstall tick tock yesterday. Whenever I went on that app, it was really hard to get off. The other day I lost an hour.

I left Facebook many years ago, and I have never missed it for an instant. TikTok has some addictive formula. I’m not sure of the psychology behind it..

When you hit exit, it shows you one more video. And if you don’t it exit again fast enough, when you do press exit, it shows you yet another video. Keeps me snagged, because it’s a good video.

But it’s gone, I have mixed feelings, kind of glad kind of not.

Life goes On!

Have a great day!

I’ve decided it’s important to feel hungry every day. When I first got divorced in 2021, I felt hungry pretty much all the time, even after I ate (I had no desire to eat). It actually felt good, being a little hungry all the time.

Then,.as my mentality improved, I began to eat more. Then I was snacking when I wasn’t even hungry. Then I’d wake up in the night and still feel full,.like my body was solid clay or something. It was unpleasant.

Then I started wondering, “when was the last time I actually felt hungry?”

So now, I have a new thing going. I try (loosely) not to eat after 6PM. I pay attention and don’t snack if I’m not hungry. Eating is not a hobby or source of entertainment.

The reason for this post, is because I woke up last night and felt hungry, and I was glad that I felt hungry.

On a side note, last night I decided I would post about being hungry this morning, and I was sure I wouldn’t forget. But I wrote it down. This morning I couldn’t remember what I wanted to post about today. I’ll always tell myself I remember, and I never will unless I write it down. That is somehow related to getting hungry every day

my morning coffee view.

Have Great Day! Stay Hungry!

My most often used grocery store has discontinued using the plastic bags like in the picture above..they used to charge 5 cents each. Now, if you need a bag, there’s cloth reusable ones that cost 25 cents.

Its good that they stop promoting a source of plastic when plastic litter creates so much trouble in this world.

But my kitchen and bathroom trash cans are designed to re-use these plastic bags with the handles.

So, soon I’ll have to start buying the white kitchen trash bags by the box..The plasttic in them is much more durable and much less biodegradable than the flimsy plastic grocery store bags. Not to mention I’ll need new trash cans.

Plus, literally everything at the grocery store comes wrapped in plastic

Humans need to take action about our plastic waste, but sometimes it seems so ineffective and hopeless.

Too bad we couldn’t have transitioned straight from the paper bags of the past to cloth, and skipped the plastic era.

Have a Happy Tuesday, April First