meditation7

... boils down to this: (1) I need to go somewhere; (2) I need to have my weekly artist’s date; (3) I decide to walk there as my form of transportation; (4) I allow FAR more time to get there than I need, so it feels luxurious; (5) I stop to smell the flowers (a habit picked up from an important person in my life of the feminine persuasion); and (6) I pull out my cell phone and take pictures if I see something particularly appealing to my aesthetics or that prompts a meditative state…

... now that I’m still a kid, I continue to love them. It’s just that the toys have changed. A trip down to Fry’s Electronics (far enough from me that it takes on a pilgrimage quality) brings out the “Oh… wow!” in me, and, if not in the company of others, I can spend hours just looking. In my current “I don’t need anything else” frame of mind, the experience can still indulge my curiosity and fascination for the new and the unusual.

_{And I made it out of there without spending more than $9. :-)}

... with no specific destination does the trick on this. Grab a book, get on a bus line that I don’t normally take, and sight-see, look out the window, come back to the book, breathe and be present… Simple but enjoyable for me.