humanity
November 2008 
If you could send a message to the world, what would you say?
Posted on May 3rd, 2007
by 
Laura
Laura
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 03, 2007:
Pay attention.
Be present. Be with whatever experience you’re having as deeply as is humanly possible.
Don’t overanalyze. Be present for love, for disappointment and its teachings, for impossibility, for loss, and for fulfillment.
Linger with the flavors of your breakfast and don’t eat your oatmeal standing up.
Notice things: the rainstick vibrations of plastic blinds over a vent, the fact that the lakewater has receded a bit since your last visit to its shores, the fact that you’re tired and need more rest.
Be kind. For me this goes along with attention, since the more I am present with and for those around me, truly grounded in being with them, which certainly isn’t all the time, the more I feel that they are in me and I am in them. That can be daunting but it also opens up whole worlds of possibility for connection and understanding.
Listen to new music and revel in the songs you know by heart.
Find poetry in the mundane, like the poets and saints Emily talked about in Our Town. See the beauty in the white plastic sack dancing in the wind, the way the young filmmaker did in American Beauty. Remember those moments, but don’t cling to them with desperation.
Forgive people as much as you can. It’s so healing.
Peace, again, to all of you on your respective walks this fine evening.
Namaste,
Laura
art credit to Odilon Redon
Be present. Be with whatever experience you’re having as deeply as is humanly possible.
Don’t overanalyze. Be present for love, for disappointment and its teachings, for impossibility, for loss, and for fulfillment.
Linger with the flavors of your breakfast and don’t eat your oatmeal standing up.
Notice things: the rainstick vibrations of plastic blinds over a vent, the fact that the lakewater has receded a bit since your last visit to its shores, the fact that you’re tired and need more rest.
Be kind. For me this goes along with attention, since the more I am present with and for those around me, truly grounded in being with them, which certainly isn’t all the time, the more I feel that they are in me and I am in them. That can be daunting but it also opens up whole worlds of possibility for connection and understanding.
Listen to new music and revel in the songs you know by heart.
Find poetry in the mundane, like the poets and saints Emily talked about in Our Town. See the beauty in the white plastic sack dancing in the wind, the way the young filmmaker did in American Beauty. Remember those moments, but don’t cling to them with desperation.
Forgive people as much as you can. It’s so healing.
Peace, again, to all of you on your respective walks this fine evening.
Namaste,
Laura
art credit to Odilon Redon
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There's money to be made off “Don't eat your oatmeal standing up”. T-shirts, bumper stickers… You're alive Laura and it's wonderful to hear that and see it along with you.
“….. to see all the world in a grain of sand….”
Does leaning on the counter while eating my oatmeal count? I want one of the T-shirts!
Laura – synchronicity just occurred.
Geo, of the above comment, is someone I work with in the real world and he was just in my workplace telling me about “a zaadz friend who said, “don't eat your oatmeal standing up” and then just a few minutes later, I logged on to zaadz and there was a friend request from you and I went and checked out your profile and sent you a message and then came to peek at your blog and what to you know — YOU are the person he was talking about .
I love this blog. Thanks.
Wow! I can actually comment back to you guys now with my new computer. I love it!
Maybe if you ate half your oatmeal leaning on the counter and the other half sitting down?