This is the town and these are the people...
I love Harry Nilsson's "The Point"- if you don't know it, buy it, just re-issued on CD. I am often reminded of some of the more enduring tidbits from the album. (YES, that's right, ALBUM.)
Today I have been ruminating on the Man in the Pointed Forest who tells Oblio that "A point in every direction is the same as no point at all." It is one of those every direction days.
Focusing on just one thing is a pleasure for me, just sitting and thinking about one topic now seems like a luxury as I often start thinking about one topic- i.e. my new business- and end up with another running in-"hey, don't forget the preschool application" or "today is my sister-in-law's birthday." Even as I am blogging, I am thinking "As soon as I am done, I need to pay the Visa bill, and then go fold the laundry and I forgot to follow up with that babysitter."
A friend of mind once said that she likes to meditate as she takes that time to just sit still with her mind and "Let the shit run through." Not a pretty image, but descriptive. I, on the other hand, prefer to use what little meditation time I find to just focus on one item, topic or moment. More of a micro than a macro approach, and it is my hope that I figure out some way to find more time to be still and focus. On. One. Thing.
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I often wish that I could meditate. I think the biggest challenge is not how, what, or where to meditate but when. When do I have the time (cut out a TV show and I'd have plenty). Disipline! That's what is lacking in so many areas of my life. Often I can infuse disipline by investing in the task, monitarily that is. If I spend money on something than I'm damn sure to want to get my money's worth. Still once I have gotten my money's worth I often can bail out unless I become hooked and that ain't easy. It used to be that if I didn't exercise I'd feel awful and I'd have to exercise to feel good again. Can I ever get back to this place. I hope so. It is so easy now to blame not doing what I know is good for me on the fact that I have two small kids an I'm just to damn tired. Although this has some truth to it, it is ulimately a cop-out.
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Tony C, at January 23, 2005 at 7:44 PM
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