friday afternoon update! 11: goodbye 2008

going…going…gone?

hey there! welcome to the last update! of 2008. yep. time flies when you are having fun, eh? and now that we are in the home stretch, it’s worth remembering one important thing…it ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings!

dude…are you ever going to learn to talk straight?

probably not. however, i do promise that i will continue to abide. and ramble for as long as i need to get to the point. so that important thing…well…here we go:

when we don’t really complete the old, we tend to dress it up in new clothes and live it all over again!

wow. lot’s of headings today. and that there has been my second big epiphany of the week, following straight on the heels of the first, which i revealed on monday as 

screw the to do list and focus on the theme.

so in focusing on the theme, digging in, physically first, and just working on the underground level patiently, like fungal mycelium spreading slowly and surely right under our feet until bam! the conditions are right and astounding insights begin to pop into your mind, just like mushrooms popping up out of “nowhere” (now here…geddit?) and covering every yard on the block. ye shall know them by their fruits, as they say.

now we are getting somewhere

so this week, after walking, and getting massaged, and having fun snowy adventures with my son (disguised as trips to the bank and the credit union); after more walks and baths and daily morning pages and heart meditations; this week i began to have a series of astounding insights about the patterns of my life. yikes! 

this is like one of those harvests where, depending on your sense of humor, it’s either “what the hell am i going to do with all these zucchini” or it’s trying to butcher and smoke a moose before the flies get into the mix when really you are just a dumb suburban kid trying to interface the reality of the wild with an image from some books you read some time…

like…bumper crop! lot’s of stuff! and what do i do with it?

whoa mule whoa! when i say whoa i mean whoa!

well…that’s all to be taken care of on monday! for right now it’s just keep on digging, keep on interfacing with the inner network, keep on harvesting the fruits of the inner work. ‘cos the moon hasn’t gone new yet, we’re still in the drive toward ultimate darkness, and i have to go teach a yoga class, drop my car off with the auto mechanic, and give three massages…

and despite the mass of insights i already have to work with…i’m gonna keep on digging and tromping and keeping it physical and focused on yesterday and today…until tomorrow! and of course i promise that in this next phase i will be a bit more forthcoming about this.

and what did you come up with this week?