Hail to the Blue and Yellow!

No, not the colors of my current home institution, but the colors of IKEA!, which opens tomorrow in our area. It's going to be a complete madhouse, and traffic challenges are even predicted. I shouldn't drive near there until fall at least, but I don't know if I'll be able to wait that long. Mmmmm, meatballs. Isn't it curious that their opening day is also Ash Wednesday?

Foggy-brain, clearing

A foggy day in the brain, partly due to the rainstorm, a poor night of sleep (trash cans right outside bedroom window, with rain going thump-thump), leading to that barometer-shifting headache. The physical spilled over to the rest of the self, and a foggy response to the many priorities facing me at work. I have all of the priorities in the head, and may have had the "next actions", but didn't really want to act on any of them. Result: bare minimum at work today, with hopefully some built momentum for the rest of the week. Gotta compensate after all. Sometimes procrastination has productive results.

Also, a spiritual shift this morning about how God wants us to respond to the things we usually complain about. This from a mental convergence of the latest readings on meditation and a new book given to us by someone in our prospective church starting a small group this week. It's very easy in our self-absorption to complain about our plight, often not that big of a deal, vs. to ask ourselves (and God) how we're supposed to grow from it. The lesson: to let go? Maybe that's why I have the headache.

Cold outside, but not on the inside

Friends' posts comment on the brrrrr temperatures around here. Snow flurries for the Sacto valley? No way. It snows like once every 20 years here. I don't think it will happen.

Flying monkey mode continues at work, with many projects and many levels bouncing this way and that. Moving it all forward, and trying to implement calmer focus and attention in the midst. Some successes in that regard when I felt I was really listening to who was speaking, but other instances when I definitely felt ego getting in the way of listening and didn't like the outcome (talking too much, not being as understanding of the situation as I could have been).

3-day weekend!

Love and peace, peace and love.

Transcending the various flying monkeys (esp. at work) to focus on generate peace in interactions and in the world. The most recent session of a local peace activism group included a talk by Jo Streit, a documentary film producer and professional speaker, who presented bits of her films including a discussion between David Lynch and John Hagelin. I don't know much about TM, but what about radiating peaceful energy into our individual energy fields? Sounds like it could work better than writing a letter to your congressman/woman, which often doesn't meet with much success.

Other finds: Hay House Radio. Hay House is Dr. Wayne Dyer's publisher, and this radio outlet has lectures by him and other positively-thinking folks.

So, there's a more link-filled post than usual, for lately. GTD has unraveled momentarily at work, but trying to find some breathing room to see the desk again. See first sentence above re: flying monkeys. AAHH!

Happy Valentine's Day!