You wanted entertainment? Wait one day.

What a goof ball the mind can be.

Remember yesterday, sooooo many hours ago, and how I did The Work on how totally boring life can be sometimes?

Ha ha. Not really true.

But you would think, in the midst of inquiry about quiet, repetitive, empty moments of time and the nature of boredom, it would be easy to remember that in less than two days, I’d be walking the streets of New York.

Mid-stride, with a huge smile on my face, drinking in the dark, windy streets full of noises, people, lights coming from small passageways into warm cozy hole-in-the-wall restaurants, art galleries, and shops….

….I suddenly thought to myself, “Jeez, look at this amazing life. I get on an airplane, I sit down for five hours, I run into a friend on the same airplane from Seattle, we travel into New York City on the train together, and the entire journey is spectacular, new, fun, joyful, restful (I slept for part of the plane ride) and my eyes can’t stop taking in this delicious world.”

If you’re bored, just wait awhile.

If you’re sad, just wait awhile.

If you’re angry, just wait awhile.

Here comes another day, another hour, another new moment.

This one.

The complaining mind is so funny, isn’t it?

It’s like a little wind up puppet with a trumpet, and it loves to play that trumpet really loud sometimes!!

We start listening to the horn blow, completely forgetting it’s not that harmonious, and not very good technique, and kind of random.

In fact, it’s terrible.

What if we just looked at our inner complainer like a kind of “off” guy in the alley delightedly playing a trumpet?

Maybe someone with a few cards short of a full deck, if you know what I mean.

Kind of a dim bulb. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Someone with only one oar in the water, if you catch my drift.

As in…..did you remember, the other day when you thought life was boring….but actually you were soon to depart for New York City?

Oh. That was me.

Now. I know this is pretty incredible to be able to take a trip and travel and have the world show up as so very very entertaining.

But I am talking about so much more than the huge privilege of physical adventure.

I’m talking about the very funny way our perceptions are soooo clouded by the moment.

Dang. Just so sure what’s happening is TRUE, it feels like being completely immersed in the emotion and the experience….

….and it will Never End.

But it will. It can. Any minute now. It does.

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” ~ Tao Te Ching #15 

Much love, Grace