The Moon Week
Since I got my moon today I won't be practicing tomorrow and probably not Wednesday and Thursday is a moon day so... it got me thinking that I often look at these times, a moonday or my moonday, with a bit of "ah, damn, there's this moonday and it means I can't practice." I was talking with an authorized teacher once when she told me that she always takes the first 3 days of her moon off and she savors it like a vacation. I think I should think of it that way. So tonight I am trying it out.
My version of trying it out often means doing all the things I wouldn't normally do in the name of the fact that I pretty much don't do them because I have practice in the morning. This means I had wine, I had chocolate and I had pasta for dinner (not all in that order clearly). I also laid down the new rug and tried downward dog on and it feels all slippery.
Tonight I was sitting in the chair listening to The Son read me Calvin & Hobbes. He loves Calvin & Hobbes even if it is one of those things that I cringe at the thought of him reading (come on, stupid, idiot and a host of other inappropriate words) and The Husband asks me if I remember, before we had kids, how I had said that I would never be able to "get" even my own kids until they could read. He told me that moment, sitting in the chair, our legs flung over the side, listening to my child read out loud with emotion and imitation and everything must be like this pinnacle or top of the mountain. How silly was it to think that given everything that happens when they can't do things like interpret logic or laugh at jokes or reason. What you don't know until you really are a parent!!! It's that magic thing all of us parents know... the intangible piece that can't be spoken, that no one could possibly ever understand unless they were a parent. All the things we know now.
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Wash the rug several times, I spray my rug where my hands and feet are when I know I won't sweat too much. Today I sprayed it and I certainly didn't need to, I was sweating buckets. Wonderful, wonderful practice with N and K. I got to meet Road to Mysore who is lovely, see a few old friends from various places and visit with N and K and drink coconuts. Shop on Melrose go to lunch at the Ivy, it was a jammed pack 24 hours, we need to schedule another outing, you need to come :)
Kiran
Posted by: kiran | April 25, 2006 12:17 AM
Watching your children grow and develop is just one of the ost awesome things in the world. SON now wants to go through my old comic book collection and find things to read.
Posted by: ciodude | April 25, 2006 5:56 AM
you have got to be f***ing kidding me! C&H is absolute genius!! the best, without any comparison, the best comic strip i've ever read. like thetime he's whacking away, hammering nails and tacks into the coffee table in the living room. his mom runs in all panicked and shouts, "STOP! Calvin, what on earth are you doing?" and watterson shows calvin looking at the reader with this dumbfounded look on his face that clearly said, "is she stupid? what the hell does it look like i'm doing". hobbes? come on! only snoopy came as close as a meaningful side character. i completely stopped reading the funny pages when he stopped drawing and pulled his strip. there was no point. how can you not like Calvin? i'm starting to wonder about you jules
Posted by: okrgr | April 25, 2006 4:45 PM
Well, Mr. Congratulations Are In Order (really Congratulations...I know how hard you've been working on that!!!!), it's just that since he started reading C&H I've noticed an increase in the usage of words like "idiot" and "stupid" and other inappropriate, non-nice adjectives ;) Yes, I'm painfully sensitive to it...
I didn't say I didn't like Calvin. In fact, I think it's quite funny.... but I also don't let my kids watch Prison Break as much as I like it ;)
Posted by: Julie | April 25, 2006 5:28 PM