Leftover Turkey Sandwiches, Acorns, and New Life

I've already posted recently, and I am sleepy, so this will be short.

Went for a walk in the woods, which, after being in the city for so long, feels like a cherry red piece of hot iron being dunked in a barrel of water sounds. Or a spaceship airlock flooding with oxygen in preparation for astronaut re-entry.

Found some acorns. Collected them for later. Need the shells for a medicinal mixture. Found a nice lichen covered rock, almost totally aquamarine with the fungal/algae symbiote. Had a sit. Rapture.

Flyer for my Life Coaching business finished. For now. Already I know things I'll change about it for next time, but it will do for the moment. It looks good and I need to move on. On that stream of thought, started playing with website design. Making a website is fun. At least it is when using a program that lets me design without having to code. I will have fun doing this.

Meeting with first client who is a referral rather than someone I know directly. Yay! Small steps, but each step, a step forward.

Enjoy your leftover turkey sandwiches. I can't think of anything about being a vegetarian I miss more than leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches. On fresh rosemary sourdough, with cranberry sauce and gravy. Mmmm. I'm glad my visualizing abilities are improving. I can enjoy the idea of it, at least. That the fact that someone, somewhere is eating it. Benefits of a non-dual belief system: I get to enjoy everything everybody is enjoying.

That's all for now.

-Peace

Gratitude

Today I am grateful for gratitude. Gratitude is one of the most uplifting forces in my life. It is not so much what I get that makes me happy. It is my ability to be grateful for what I have.

Thank you, wonderful, funny, supportive friends.

Thank you, wise, loving, selfless teachers.

Thank you understanding, caring, unified family.

Thank you, beautiful, benevolent, dear world.

Thank you persevering, brave, amusing Self.

Thank you All-encompassing, utterly loving, incomprehensibly giving God. 

All those who have been and/or are in my life, I thank you for the love, light, and learning you have brought into my life.

Happy Thanksgiving 

Finger Food and Word Creation

This is going to be a short one because I'm not at home, thus I have to write it on my cell phone. I'm staying at a friends house so the Sai Baba birthday celebrations are easier to get to, and now to help them make and deliver some fried rice for tomorrow's celebration. 

We just preformed the play we've been working on for months. Great success. Certainly not broadway. But it had heart, a good message, and a great group of people working working on it together. The Sai community are in general wonderful people. Some of their main mottos are "Love All, Serve All." And "Help Ever, Hurt Never." And a lot of them embody that in a really touching and delightful way. 

They really enjoy feeding people delicious food, for example. If you don't want to eat, you kind of have to fend them off with a stick. It's endearing. Very archetypally Mother. And if you know them their kids call you Uncle or Aunty. So to some adorable kids I am "Isaac-Uncle." Makes me smile.

OK, that's all the finger typing I can bear for now. 

P.S. I invented a new word by accident: Illogistically. Meaning: like illogical is to logical. To do something with such poor planning it draws not only oneself, but also all of those around you into a black hole of chaos and malfunction.

Have a great week. 😊

-I

Call the Batmobile

Holy crumpet-muffens Batman! I just got a bazillion page views from one post. I guess people like this format? Or they just like crumpets? Time will tell.

I normally plan to post on the weekend but this weekend is cray-cray and I've got a bit of time to write now so that's how things are going down.

Let me introduce you to my crazy weekend. (crazy in a good way):
First, tomorrow morning I'm... oh, actually it's a secret. But it's really fun and satisfying. Mwahaha, you'll never knooooooow!

Ahem. Then I'm going to help teach (but mostly learn about teaching) at a class designed to inculcate young children with good character and values.

I love the kids, the kids love the class, and the program is mindblowingly effective. I suppose I should hold off judgment till I've spent more time observing and participating, but the kids I've met so far who've been in the program for some time already are sweet, smart, courteous and well disciplined. It's a breath of fresh air, and it seems like a different species of animal to most of the kids I meet. But it's not. It's the same species, And the fact that all kids don't get something like this is sad, for the kids and the parents. Anyways, it's fun and inspiring to be a part of, even as a very auxiliary part. It's an honor and a great learning experience.

Then, I'm going to Global Akhanda Bhajans. That is where, all around the world, for 24 hours straight (nobody's watching you, it's fine to take a nap or leave early) people gather and sing devotional songs.

Though I was initially not into the whole concept of devotional singing, (or any kind of singing where I might potentially be heard) I've found it growing on me over the years. It is an effective spiritual practice, and fun to boot.

After that, come Sunday evening, I will either be rather toasty in the head or super energized. But certainly well fed (they have free, amazing Indian food at these events as well.)

Life is good.  (  ^_^  )
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There's lots more going on, but I need to actually do it, rather than talking about it, so that shall be all for now. Suffice to say the gravimetric field displacement manifolds are spinning up and getting ready to launch with the whole Life Coaching thing, and that is thrilling in a way comparable to what I felt when I was witnessing miracles during my trip to India.

(Good lord, there's so much backlog to catch everyone up on. I'm going to have to do this more than once a week or I'll never get even the bones of all of it on paper.)

Goodnight for now. Time for some delicata squash and a bit of ice cream.


Love

Isaac

Hello World

So here's the plan: I'm going to share this blog with friends and family. The purpose is to keep you in the loop about what's going on in my life. There are a bunch of you who want me to keep in touch. This is how I'm going to do that. I know I would enjoy something like this from some of my friends, so by reason of the Golden Rule, it falls on me to do it.

The posts may be quite short, but I'll do my best to post one every week. Kudos to the friend who inspired this idea.

This is the first one. Hello. Today I started a blog called Tea and Crumpets with Isaac. The letter of the day is D, for Discipline. Specifically, the discipline necessary when there aren't external structures or pressures forcing me to be disciplined. Because I'm already good at that. What I'm talking about are the skills necessary to be successfully self employed. Setting my own goals and creating my own supportive environment for achieving them. It is significantly harder than the discipline necessary to work within a system like school.

I'm confident I will succeed in cultivating this. When I do... well, the sky's the limit. I'll start traveling at warp speed.


I looked up exactly what a crumpet is and now I want one even though it's unlikely to be as good as it looks.

That's all for now. Take care dear friends and family, and enjoy life. It is precious and you cannot get back even one second of it. Spend wisely and with joy.

-Isaac