My blog ponderings last night were related to "beach" novels and "meditation." Ironic perhaps, that today turned out to be the most beautiful day yet of 2011 so Yoga Kid and I headed for the beach, where we actually meditated, twice. I'm kind of thinking that meditating is something that I should stop reading about, and start doing.
Snippets from our beautiful afternoon:
Me:
I'm trying to write lighter, happier posts on my blog these days.
Yoga Kid:
It's not working, you better try harder.
Me:
Sometimes I'm funny.
Yoga Kid:
Mostly not.
Me:
Damn.
We walk and talk for about thirty minutes, then sit down on the rocks by water's edge, where I suggest that we look for heart-shaped rocks and sea glass.
Me:
Maybe I'll write a book called Heart Shaped Rocks and Sea Glass and it will be about a crazy woman on stress leave who, in her obsessive search for heart shaped rocks and sea glass, finds her self.
Yoga Kid:
Probably not.
Nonetheless, we find ourselves some lovely specimens, including a very small heart shaped rock.
After a spell, we are completely overjoyed when Yoga Kid comes upon a heart shaped green piece of sea glass.
Yoga Kid:
A green heart! Green is the colour of the heart chakra! (Yoga Kid's yoga business is called Anahata Moon Yoga - Anahata is the sanskrit name for heart chakra).
Me:
You should take a really artsy picture.
Yoga Kid:
Let's balance Hearty (the green heart shaped piece of sea glass needed a name, so we gave it one) on a flat rock on a bigger rock right here and I'll snap the picture when the tide washes up towards them.
Half an hour, several wet running shoes later, and a couple of near losses of Hearty out to sea, and Yoga Kid finally captures it.
And from this beautiful afternoon, and this one photo, I realize what mindfulness is truly all about.
Me:
Thanks, Yoga Kid.
Lovely.
ReplyDeleteI had the best day, the memory of it warms me. Missing you, Jessa.
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