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A very long week

Carefree, cautious, cranky. Along with craziness, celebrations and cannonarchy. Cannonarchy is a government by superior firepower or by cannons. I am tired of the superior firepower of the GOP, and equally distraught by the firing of cannons all around throwing blame and attacking each other rather than agreeing that solutions will come in multiple ways, and that the mighty right might not get us where we need to go. Politics is the monkey on your back, in your head, scurrying around in your stomach when you begin to meditate. It is like the buzzing mosquito at nightfall, and the fly that is stuck in bedroom just as you fall asleep. There seems to be no good political news in the U.S.A. I can step out of it, breathe, and find another way for awhile, and then I am back in the angst. calculating change in pay check, when I get my first unemployment check, understanding that I am not the "worst off" and yet knowing my situation is greatly affected by the shut down of sta

Long long silence

Well, last time I posted it was May and I was lamenting about the number of snow days we were having. Now it is July and I am counting the number of days of shut-down of the state. Good news it is 10 a.m. on a Tuesday and I am sipping tea, listening to the radio and blogging away!!!!! I can almost feel the stress slipping out of my pores. I am breathing more deeply, remembering to feel my breath, and slowing down. Daily lessons of presence and letting go. Enough said. Breathe.