Day 143 - 06:45, 24 May 2019
I think this is the earliest I have taken one of my daily photos. I awoke this morning at 5:20am, needing the bathroom. Normally, afterwards I would have crawled into bed and fallen straight back to sleep, but there is something about there being broad daylight when it is supposed to be still dark that is just too confusing.
Instead, I lie in bed reading. It is a delightful treat to be able to turn page after page, without having to simultaneously fight to keep my eyes open. I tell myself that I will just finish this chapter and then I'll get up and do something useful, but the chapters are so deliciously short and delightful that I keep on reading.
The book is Natalie Goldberg's "The Wild Mind" and it all about how to get into your groove as a writer and actually writing. I like everything that she has written but one of the Buddhist phrases that she quotes seems to resonate most. "Everything is interconnected and interpenetrated." The image haunts me.
I have long since got that we are all connected. But penetrated, that is taking things to a whole new level. If connected is an external string binding us to one another and to every other thing, then penetration is physical, internal and it hurts. Every piece of junk that is lying on the bedroom floor, it's no longer just lying there not harming anyone, those bits of paper, all that needless stuff . . . this could be the impetus I need to let it all go.
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