Writer's Block: The Royal Wedding

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A donation to charity - as they had asked.

Mir and I asked the same thing when we were married last fall. When you've lived together for some time, you usually have the sorts of things that you would normally receive for a wedding gift. So to us that seemed like the perfect opportunity to give something back, as we weren't looking to increase or replace life's little necessities.

All I Can Do

From The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.

Wrapped within young leaves the sound of water.
--Soseki

This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with the quiet hope that embedded in our nature, even as we begin, is our gift already unfolded.

This notion that we are already who and what we are and will grow into our potential given the right conditions and the right prompting - and acceptance of ourselves - is, to me, what comes out of today's thoughts.

As I sit here getting rid of the tail end of a headache that had me literally unable to do anything this morning, other than sit and fall asleep and wake and fall asleep and wake... and battling with the expectation of disappointment, (don't ask me why, but it's been haunting me for days), the other thought that runs along side this is: do not fear, all will be well. All will be as it should

In the wake of such thoughts, I shift my intentions, and any expectations, conscious or unconscious that I may have held, and prepare for what will be in the rest of the day, and as I sit here typing that thought, I brought to mind are the Western Affirmations of Hawayo Takata, who is sometimes know of as the 'Grandmother of Western Reiki.'

These principles, valued by practitioners of Reiki are not intended to mean that tomorrow you can do all of the things that you won't do today - but are in essence a guide to live in the now, because as we have seen above, the unfolding of tomorrow will take care of itself... so...

Just for today, I will not anger.
Just for today, I will let go of worry.
Just for today, I will do my work honestly.
Just for today, I will give thanks for my many blessings.
Just for today I will be kind ot my neighbour and every living thing.
Just for today, I will honour my teachers.