3 Journal Entries

May 23, 2024

It really is nice to join you here this way, a moment of musing together in the course of our day. Along that line, I thought I’d share 3 journal entries from my Morning Musings. Not big moments, just short ones that allow me to share the beginning of my day with you.

See my cuppa steaming beside me on my computer lapboard. Hear the birds so chirpily getting on with their day outside my window, as I muse and prepare to settle into my morning meditation. These are moments I’m sure you’ve had many of, too. Settle in beside me and join me there.

Hugs,
Mayet

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The weather in my head is choppy this morning, thots jumping about on deck, trying to find something to hold on to… skitter-mind. I tell it, firmly, “we’re going to settle down now and set that all aside, “don’t worry, everything will be there upon our return.” But it’s not paying attention to me at all, it’s too busy with its concerns.

That’s ok, I don’t mind, I’m familiar with my mind’s nature and I know that soon enough (or at least eventually, lol) as I deepen it will tire and curl up for a nap. So I leave it to its thrashings and I go within. My mind now sounds like a child talking to itself, but in another room.

I leave it to its chatter and move away, the next room, and the next. As I do, I notice my body breathing a big sigh of relief… it sometimes finds the mind to be soOoo tiresome! 😉

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Morning fog, a cup of tea on hand to clear my head. Rosebud tea is my favorite for this… ahhh… the wafting aroma is like a walk through a rose garden as the sun starts to warm the petals. And the taste is like sipping dew drops from petals graced with light of moon and dawn’s first rays of sun. Small delights calm the mind and open the senses to joy and the heart to peace, don’t they?

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I’ve had a lot of stuff to deal with lately requiring concentration and balance. Days of it. There’s been some breath-holding and body-tensing in that. So as I settle, I’m thinking about how to unwind that.

“Create Itty bitty satisfactions…” that’s the phrase that comes to mind in this quiet moment. I muse on what it means… itty bitty satisfactions… some days that’s all one can manage, isn’t it, when the onslaught of life’s requirements, or maybe a problem or a pain, press in with harsh demands? Itty bitty satisfactions. Yes, I see, they ease things held too tightly, relax the clenching.

Tensing is one of the ways we brace ourselves to get on, or to get by, isn’t it? Itty bitty satisfactions help create a little space for release. For me, that’s clearing the decks in some small way… putting a small thing in order, doing something easy I’ve procrastinated. Or making an area of my house pretty or a simple but flavorful soup for lunch. It might be restoring a corner of a room to order, calling a friend, doing a few minutes on my breath app, talking a little walk. Itty bitty satisfactions help us get through.

They carry a small dose of accomplishment and grace, both of which bring ease.

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And a little bonus just for fun, this bit of nonsensical truth is what I jotted down one morning before heading “out to sea”:

Missus blissmas sipped her tea in shiny satin slippers topped with fur. Her silky skirts swished and swirled around her as she twirled a circle in the sun. It was warm on her face and golden, which made her sigh in rapture. “Nature,” she thot, “is a wonderful lover!”

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