The more things in progress, the more unavoidable things happening that impact our day and health, the more we need to cultivate awareness.
Um, seva…
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Dear Friends,
I hope you are having a great day and that the ice did not cause any trouble for you. It was fun, in its own way, to hack the ice off of the steps and sidewalk and then, only a few hours later, see the ice melt.
As the sidewalks (and streets) are now merely wet, I can walk safely the eight blocks (my assessment of whether to cancel class in winter weather is based on my cautious assessment of whether I feel comfortable walking the distance to class). Class is on at William Penn House tonight.
Hope to see many of you.
Peace and light,
Elizabeth
When I was a kid, my friend who lived next door and I would use small pieces of slate to draw hopscotch boards and such on the pavement.
In recent years, more and more of my Hill neighbors have been decorating the sidewalks with chalk drawings–mostly done by children.
In south India, many of the thresholds were decorated with beautiful designs made with chalk or colored powder, and I kept thinking how delightful it would be if we engaged in that practice here.
It is on my wish/to do list to get some chalk to draw some welcoming decorations of my own on the sidewalk in front of my house.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
The artist who penned this exhortation here was highly unlikely to have intended it to have anything to do with “udyamo bhairava“–roughly, the upsurging of capitol “C” Consciousness. Siva Sutras I.5.
But if one were in the mood, one (not an academic, though), might suggest that the exhortation to rise up to one’s fullest potential, to refuse to be shackled by the oppressiveness of certain socioeconomic circumstances (I leave what those might be to your experience, knowledge, and education), as an example of one of the infinitude of ways Consciousness likes to upsurge itself towards itself.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
