August 31/11 What exactly is being in the moment. The more you think about it, the more you realize it’s impossible, for once you are in a moment, the next one is upon you. But then of course it’s only meant to mean concentrate on what you are experiencing at any given time.  Hear, touch, […]

August 30/11  Feeling vulnerable plagues shy people. You feel weaker than everyone else. In addition to my usual stress points which I carefully monitor, when I added on hurricane Irene they all got to me and I am reminded me of how insignificant I used to feel because of shyness. I had little control and […]

August 29/11 With no power or water for 24 hours, I almost missed the Boardwalk today. For entertainment two hundred years ago, children repeated tongue-twisters for entertainment, such as, a noisy noise annoys an oyster. The hurricane gave us some quiet, down time, time to think more deeply about what really matters.

A day made solitary by the storm,  I wrote a poem on the Boardwalk. Alive on a Late Summer Afternoon Above my lush meadow Invisible to me Mosquitoes thrive I see dogged dragonflies cruise, Feed, outdone only by Frenzied, hungry swallows Swirling, high, low, swerving, darting, diving. And me, from my couch, pondering the finality […]

It was pretty scary on the Boardwalk today. I heard nothing but reminders that hurricane Irene is on her way. It’s awful to be frightened of course, but the experience reminds me that when I used to be scared of something, I wasn’t shy. Can you tell me why not?↑↑↑