A Foot and a Firm Hand
Oct. 24th, 2011 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
It takes six million grains of pollen to seed one peony…
Up the morning at 6:45, ready and raring to go… of course that might have had more to do with the cold shower than actually being awake and eager to face the day. LOL Yes, the possessed shower has finally been exorcised, and there in no life left in the old thing – not even the demonic kind that likes to alternately freeze and scald both me and Mum. Mum finally had enough today, so it was down to Sainsbury's Homebase where she bought a new shower unit. Surprisingly, it is already fitted and working. I think it would have been more than Dad's life was worth to not get it installed right away, with two women nagging at him. Sometimes it takes a lot of nagging to get Dad to do anything.
Still, at 7:30, still waiting on the phone call, which didn't happen… so I took the opportunity to go the bank with the check from the scrap value of my former car, check the local library notice board in case there were any interesting notices there… and doing this I discovered two things: first that I had to renew my library membership. It's been so long since I used the library that my card didn't work… so I did that. Not that I necessarily need library books – god knows (see earlier post), I have plenty enough to read already, but… other things like free computer access at any Leicestershire Libraries, (never know when I'm going to far away from home and need to check something)… stuff like that… I also discovered that the Oadby Library has way more Star Trek books than I ever imagined it would. I'm impressed.
I then came back, and phoned back to the agency again. Now… I don't know whether this was by luck or design, but my consultant was on her lunch break, and I actually ended up speaking to the branch manager… impressing upon him how eager I was to do some work for them asap. Good phone call… I reminded him I'd spoken to Oliver the previous week, letting him know that I was all up in their stuff. Mind you, Steve is a nice guy. Anyway, not an hour or so later, my consultant phoned back with an assignment for tomorrow – Coincidence? It's also a place I can walk to – so that's one more good thing.
I'm throwing lots of pollen at the universe right now in the hope that some of it, somewhere will stick – that what I need is out there somewhere… but before I can begin to move forward, I must stop standing still.
Look at every path closely and deliberately.
Try it as many times as you think necessary.
Then ask yourself, and yourself alone...
Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it's of no use.
--Carlos Castaneda
It takes six million grains of pollen to seed one peony…
Up the morning at 6:45, ready and raring to go… of course that might have had more to do with the cold shower than actually being awake and eager to face the day. LOL Yes, the possessed shower has finally been exorcised, and there in no life left in the old thing – not even the demonic kind that likes to alternately freeze and scald both me and Mum. Mum finally had enough today, so it was down to Sainsbury's Homebase where she bought a new shower unit. Surprisingly, it is already fitted and working. I think it would have been more than Dad's life was worth to not get it installed right away, with two women nagging at him. Sometimes it takes a lot of nagging to get Dad to do anything.
Still, at 7:30, still waiting on the phone call, which didn't happen… so I took the opportunity to go the bank with the check from the scrap value of my former car, check the local library notice board in case there were any interesting notices there… and doing this I discovered two things: first that I had to renew my library membership. It's been so long since I used the library that my card didn't work… so I did that. Not that I necessarily need library books – god knows (see earlier post), I have plenty enough to read already, but… other things like free computer access at any Leicestershire Libraries, (never know when I'm going to far away from home and need to check something)… stuff like that… I also discovered that the Oadby Library has way more Star Trek books than I ever imagined it would. I'm impressed.
I then came back, and phoned back to the agency again. Now… I don't know whether this was by luck or design, but my consultant was on her lunch break, and I actually ended up speaking to the branch manager… impressing upon him how eager I was to do some work for them asap. Good phone call… I reminded him I'd spoken to Oliver the previous week, letting him know that I was all up in their stuff. Mind you, Steve is a nice guy. Anyway, not an hour or so later, my consultant phoned back with an assignment for tomorrow – Coincidence? It's also a place I can walk to – so that's one more good thing.
I'm throwing lots of pollen at the universe right now in the hope that some of it, somewhere will stick – that what I need is out there somewhere… but before I can begin to move forward, I must stop standing still.
