I swear I'm not making that name up. Caspar is a children's musician, and he's totally wonderful and ridiculous.
My little girl Kate told me about him just this morning. I've been listening to his album HOT DOG on Spotify all morning.
I'm grateful Kate told me about him!
Yesterday I got up late, had trouble with my phone, and wound up missing my train, and driving into work.
I often say that 道 provides (that's the chinese character for Tao). It brings you just what you need, just when you need it. Even if that thing seems like it kinda sucks at the time.
Case in point - driving into work was fairly uneventful and easy, but the trip home, due to rain and traffic was much longer. Along the way though I was able to make, and get, phone calls from several people. I got to talk to my good friend Molière, and help plan details for the Little Express train ride we're putting together next month, talk to my friend Maya, who's one of the dearest people in my life, talk to my friend Enfant, who's an age player friend of mine I've know for ages, but don't get to talk to nearly as often as I'd like, and then out of the blue to reconnect with another friend who I hadn't heard from in ages, and who I thought had broken ties with me utterly.
This turned out not to be so.
I wouldn't have had the time to talk to any of these lovely people without being stuck in my car for a slow drive home. I'm grateful that things work out exactly the way they're supposed to.
This has been a good day for me, schedule wise. I got up, got ready, made & packed my lunch, had breakfast, took the trash out, and got on my way to work early enough to catch an early train.
I ate lunch at my desk, while I was working. After a mid-day meeting I treated myself to a sunshine break.
What's that? It's 30 minutes to sit outside under a beautiful sky and do exactly nothing.
It's a glorious luxury. Sometimes the simplest things in life are the best. I'm grateful for the time, the sunshine, and the ability to enjoy it thoroughly.
I love Alan Watts.
He was a genius. In the video below he tells, in his pithy, funny, inimitable style, my all time favorite zen story, The Farmer and His Horse.
Watch it. I bet you'll be glad you did. I was.
45 days ago in a fit of wanting-to-get-over-myself, I signed up to give a Kiva loan to someone in Colombia.
As of today, they've repaid over 45% of that loan! I'm grateful that the action that resulted from my contemplation is making a positive difference in the world! As soon as the loan's completely repaid, I'm going to take that money and loan it to someone else through Kiva, and probably add to it, too.
I love helping!
