I have been on the go for it seems like forever. We have a lovely back yard and I never sit out here because I'm always hunched over my computer coding or answering email.
Finally today I brought my laptop out on my back porch, turned on the little umbrella lights and sat here working with a glass of wine.
Right now the sun has just set and there is a chorus of frogs all around me. It really helps me take in a deep breath and remember that nature is eternal, that whatever angst-filled crisis I am dealing with, that time will continue, the world will revolve, and life will go on. It seems sometimes like I live with my shoulders perpetually hunched, my head perpetually twisted in worry, struggling just to get through a day.
Nature really helps to put everything in perspective.
I should comment that my "meditation room" upstairs - i.e. James' room - has become overloaded with piles of origami stuff and gaming stuff and random junk all over the place. So I really need to spend a few hours to clean that all up so I have somewhere to sit that is neat. The entire house degrades into chaos if I neglect it for even a few days. It's very frustrating.
But for now I am surrounded by dark, and singing frogs, and I keep in mind that in a few million years the whole earth will be consumed by the sun, so I really shouldn't worry about a millisecond of chaos in comparison.
