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Greetings all-today’s cooler temperatures seem to confirm the arrival of fall. We’ve been graced this year, I think-that’s it’s the third week in October before it’s feeling so fall. This week marks the 2nd week of meditation class-practicing mindful presence.
And considering the possibility of being present even while driving. Turn off the music, turn on the attention. Notice the color and feel of the road. The feeling of the steering wheel and pedals under your feet. Attend with a focused attention, not the brief awareness that many years of driving brings. Remember when you first learned? How every movement, motion and reaction was full of thought, filled with adrenalin for fear of making a wrong turn, or not putting the car in gear, or not leaving enough space between your vehicular neighbor?
Happy driving this week. Oh, and it works if you’re walking too…
AND if you’re in Bangor this weekend, come dance! Contact dance class number 2 is Saturday October 22 from 7-9pm. It’s at the UU Church in Bangor. Sliding scale of $5-$10 and no registration is required. The first hour will be a lesson, followed by one hour of dancing.
Be well! And a poem by Wendell Barry:
Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For the time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
