There are lots of things that I love about the good Ola USA and one of the biggest ones is that we do immigration so well. In its own strange way, this video just seems so American – and holidayish.
Torpor
We had a Solstice ceremony yesterday – lead by Michele – and , when it came time to release what didn't serve, I released Torpor. I was only roughly sure what torpor is except that the Buddha considers it one of the inhibitors to enlightenment.
When I looked it up – with some editing – I get:
state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility
sometimes called temporary hibernation
usually short-term state of decreased physiological activity in an animal.
This seems to have been a year of falling in, of hibernation, and man. am I ready to let go of Torpor.
Happy Solstice
While you were asleep
and I was trying to sleep, Michele got this nifty picture of the eclipse.
Precious Mai – also known as Athena – in situ
Precious Mai is an outside animal and I am a little jealous. During the day, if it is not raining, she is outside. She makes periodic, but pretty random, sorties back into the house for feedings with the understanding that, once in the house, she will have to endure a full body patdown lasting for several minutes.
And she seems to be OK with that if it doesn't last too long; it is just that she would just rather be outside, thank you very much.
Anytime she comes in after 8:00pm, she is locked in. (Although she can go out on the deck overlooking the street [in the daytime she will jump off, but not at night].) When we are eating dinner, she will just sort of hang out – in the next room – on our couch. Slightly disgruntled when awake but adorable when asleep.