Highlights: SUCH a substantial day. I ended a week at Jikoji after a great sleep last night (finally), a satisfying Zazen, an informative and engaging breakfast and morning meeting, the chance to have a rewarding conversation with a practitioner that allowed me to share much of my recent experience in a way that I hope helped them, an initial discussion with Michael engaging on accepting the precepts in parallel with receiving the long-awaited painting that has as much densely layered history and meaning for me as it does paint, and of course, returning home to Jen, Tommy, and the dogs. Jen and I are on parallel paths of late regarding further recognition of shared philosophies regarding our lives, how we came together and how we want to be in the world. That we're having these experiences is so rewarding and validating. It makes an amazing difference to recognize our good fortune, the friends we have, all the experiences, good and bad, highs and lows, and even grief and loss we've experienced and will most certainly encounter again. It's all relative.
Gratitude: All this and more.
