Mindset: Contemplative resentment. I am becoming the routine "go to" for the dogs in the am. It impedes on my intention and focus to reflect with gratitude each morning for simply being here, and to focus on the day's agenda. Only first, dogs gotta pee 'n dogs gotta eat. They can be insistent but it's through t insistence that they believe they bring about their breakfast. I'm inspired though by the morning meditation on calm about "mood tunnels". Knowing you're in "a mood" will in itself take you out of that mood enough to recognize it as such. It made me note for my ongoing list of reminders that "Our perception and interpretation define our experience." After the calm app I opened the daily stoic and was pleased to have the topic follow a related path. " ""Whenever you take offense at someone's wrongdoing, immediately turn to your own similar failings. …By thinking on this, you'll quickly forget your anger, considering also what compels them"—MARCUS AURELIUS," Yep. I'm finding plenty in that I can relate to, too.
Goals: working with Mark, widening the kitchen doorway for my mom.
Anticipation: hearing back hopefully today as to my BIGS recording submission.
Wants: Continued conscious awareness of my influence on others and myself by being aware of our individual limitations, needs, and desires, all while keeping the greater reality of impermanence and nature in mind.
