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| (Stolen from J. Schey.) |
May 1
dulciloquent, adj.
[‘Of a person: sweet-spoken. Hence also of an utterance, style, etc.: characterized by pleasing or mellifluous language.’]
Pronunciation: Brit. /dʌlˈsɪləkwənt/, U.S. /ˌdəlˈsɪləkwənt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Latin dulcis, -loquent comb. form.
Etymology: < classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.) + -loquent comb. form, after classical Latin dulciloquus (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius).
That’s a bit more soothing than many things I begin with. The sky is a steely blue-grey over to the west although the sun is knifing past me to the north. Oona Minnie Pearl Moonlight likes to sleep on the veranda. I think there are fewer fleas there. She must have been deeply asleep as she can't quite figure out where the "kitty kitty kitty" is coming from.
I woke up before my 6:30 alarm. I have this Romantic notion that I will get up early and start getting things accomplished before the day kicks in full force. Sitting here watching the light reflecting off of the cement walls, I am sorely tempted to get back into bed to read until the coffee kicks in. Unfortunately, the Circle Jerks' song from yesterday keeps thrumming through my head.
We just get by
However we can
We all have to duck
When the shit hits the fan
And I know that time is now.
I suppose the general ignorance of the general population is one of the things that alarms me. Without a baseline understanding of hygiene, science, history and basic manners, the outlook for the behavior and wisdom of the populace is not good. When I read that people are starving in refugee camps and immigrant prisons, not to mention the poverty-stricken areas of this country and that animals and crops and other food products are being dumped MAKES ME CRAZY. This is what government is for, and I know we are preaching to the choir here, but infrastructure! Community and international aid and cooperation programs! Hell, we've got plenty of gas and unused airplanes. Plus, time on our hands for volunteering if we can figure out a way to do it safely. Hazmat suits anyone?
Many hours, interruptions, procrastinatory events later ...
It's getting to the 11th hour and I did not make the aguasacaca I had planned to take to YTT tomorrow.. Going into the kitchen to cook is more of a direct procrastinary event than I can allow myself.
I have tried to get in the spirit of yoga sequencing, but that isn't coming easily to me today. I have books and print-outs strewn about and ideas but just not the concentration to formulate them.
One of the books I read was T.K.V. Desikachar's The Heart of Yoga.
Another aspect of yoga has to do with our actions. Yoga therefore also means acting in such a way that all of our attention is directed toward the activity in which we are currently engaged ... (as if) ... Suppose for example that while I am writing, one part of my mind is thinking about what I want to say and while another part is thinking about entirely different. The more I am focused on my writing, the great my attentiveness to my action in this moment. The exact opposite might also occur: I might begin writing with great attention, but as I continue to write my attention begins to waiver. I might begin to think about the plans I have for the day tomorrow, or what is cooking for dinner. It then appears as if I am acting with attentiveness, but really I am paying little attention to the task at hand.
I am functioning but I am not present.
Yoga attempts to create a state in which we are always present—really present—in every action, in every moment.
This was just one paragraph but I wanted to tease it out a bit. He goes on to say
The advantage of attentiveness is that we perform each task better and at the same time are conscious of our actions. The possibility of making mistakes becomes correspondingly smaller the more our attention develops. When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits;
we do no need to do something today simply because we did it yesterday. instead there is the possibility of considering our actions fresh and so avoiding thoughtless repetition.
My spacing again there.
I think there is a lot to think about there, not only in a practice or a discipline, but how we live in the larger world. People in America, particularly, but the whole world, really have to stop 'phoning it in.
I have challenges being present as anyone who knows me knows. I am always doing at least two things at a time partly to avoid being present. Being present implies/demands/requests commitment and we have already been over that. Being present actually takes one out of the me and into the cosmic us of contribution of energy or good will or further consciousness.
So onto functioning AND being present. (And then a good night's sleep.)
GRAZING HORSES
Sometimes the
green pasture
of the mind
tilts abruptly.
The grazing horses
struggle crazily
for purchase
on the frictionless
nearly vertical
surface. Their
furniture-fine
legs buckle on the incline
unhorsed by slant
they weren't
designed to climb
and can't.
— Kaye Ryan, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, New York, Grove Press, 2010.
We just get by
However we can
We all have to duck
When the shit hits the fan
And I know that time is now.
I suppose the general ignorance of the general population is one of the things that alarms me. Without a baseline understanding of hygiene, science, history and basic manners, the outlook for the behavior and wisdom of the populace is not good. When I read that people are starving in refugee camps and immigrant prisons, not to mention the poverty-stricken areas of this country and that animals and crops and other food products are being dumped MAKES ME CRAZY. This is what government is for, and I know we are preaching to the choir here, but infrastructure! Community and international aid and cooperation programs! Hell, we've got plenty of gas and unused airplanes. Plus, time on our hands for volunteering if we can figure out a way to do it safely. Hazmat suits anyone?
Many hours, interruptions, procrastinatory events later ...
It's getting to the 11th hour and I did not make the aguasacaca I had planned to take to YTT tomorrow.. Going into the kitchen to cook is more of a direct procrastinary event than I can allow myself.
I have tried to get in the spirit of yoga sequencing, but that isn't coming easily to me today. I have books and print-outs strewn about and ideas but just not the concentration to formulate them.
One of the books I read was T.K.V. Desikachar's The Heart of Yoga.
Another aspect of yoga has to do with our actions. Yoga therefore also means acting in such a way that all of our attention is directed toward the activity in which we are currently engaged ... (as if) ... Suppose for example that while I am writing, one part of my mind is thinking about what I want to say and while another part is thinking about entirely different. The more I am focused on my writing, the great my attentiveness to my action in this moment. The exact opposite might also occur: I might begin writing with great attention, but as I continue to write my attention begins to waiver. I might begin to think about the plans I have for the day tomorrow, or what is cooking for dinner. It then appears as if I am acting with attentiveness, but really I am paying little attention to the task at hand.
I am functioning but I am not present.
Yoga attempts to create a state in which we are always present—really present—in every action, in every moment.
This was just one paragraph but I wanted to tease it out a bit. He goes on to say
The advantage of attentiveness is that we perform each task better and at the same time are conscious of our actions. The possibility of making mistakes becomes correspondingly smaller the more our attention develops. When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits;
we do no need to do something today simply because we did it yesterday. instead there is the possibility of considering our actions fresh and so avoiding thoughtless repetition.
My spacing again there.
I think there is a lot to think about there, not only in a practice or a discipline, but how we live in the larger world. People in America, particularly, but the whole world, really have to stop 'phoning it in.
I have challenges being present as anyone who knows me knows. I am always doing at least two things at a time partly to avoid being present. Being present implies/demands/requests commitment and we have already been over that. Being present actually takes one out of the me and into the cosmic us of contribution of energy or good will or further consciousness.
So onto functioning AND being present. (And then a good night's sleep.)
GRAZING HORSES
Sometimes the
green pasture
of the mind
tilts abruptly.
The grazing horses
struggle crazily
for purchase
on the frictionless
nearly vertical
surface. Their
furniture-fine
legs buckle on the incline
unhorsed by slant
they weren't
designed to climb
and can't.
— Kaye Ryan, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, New York, Grove Press, 2010.
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