There are two images at the end of this post. The 1st shows Jupiter rising in Virgo and the 2nd shows the time etc. for the same chart. I was cleaning blinds, looking forward to Mr. Lyrica coming to spend the day tomorrow. i talked him into planning dinner. i need a little surprise. some one else deciding on the menu. and he needs a chance to start taking up life's daily tasks. when i asked if he wanted to plan the meal he said, "it doesn't matter." then came another text immediately after, "you decide." followed by a 3rd...."i can help."
he helped the last time. now he has to go to the next level and make a plan. he also has to quit deferring. he is too damn polite. but back to the blinds.
I was on the 2nd of 3 sets in the living room. i started with the one set in the window behind the couch. i didn't want him hanging on the couch near dusty blinds. then i moved to the two windows facing the front of the house. those blinds are not as dusty.
i was reflecting on the last time i had cleaned them. i couldn't remember, but they aren't that bad. Though i have let most of the windows go for about 5 years, i manage to clean the blinds at least once a year.
dirty windows are a real drag.
It would be depressing living with such a smeary view of the outside if i didn't have my nose in a book most of the time. Then too, the process has been slow, but i'm convinced, absolutely, that the more i rest the better my health becomes. So looking out at the neighborhood kids playing in the street, or in the park, and seeing them through windows covered with bug splats and the funk deposited by repeated cycles of condensation, reminds me of my determination to get better by getting the rest i need.
next thing i knew i was in a reverie about customers. that happens a lot. my customers are my jivanmuktis, my chosen examples of liberated beings. i thought about how one time i told a customer why i had asked to postpone a week; this was after she had graciously assented....maybe i was wiping the counters in her kitchen and we were chatting. i explained that i was tired of coming home to a dirty house and wanted to take some time off to clean my own house.
many times i have recalled that exchange and considered how thoughtless it was on my part. i used to recall it with shame. but since i have had La Koala living with me and watched her struggles with money, constantly having to send, send and send again for one ememrgency after another to her family in Mexico, i know what it is like to over look the whining of someone you feel deserves respect.
La Koala has made a couple remarks about how nice it must be to work so little. one time it really stung. i noticed myself, days after the remark, composing phrases in my mind to defend myself. but after a bit of thought i remembered how i had been treated when i showed the same sentiment. i remembered the time i whined about how dirty my house was because i was too busy cleaning for customers, and how my cusomer did not bat an eye. she over looked it. the conversation flowed right over my pebble as if no offense had been given or taken.
so i noticed a smile this time-it just came...i was all alone, enjoying my little task and there I was smiling at a memory that once made me cringe. this is the chart for the moment i noticed myself smiling about how i have learned something wonderful from the people i have 'served'.
he helped the last time. now he has to go to the next level and make a plan. he also has to quit deferring. he is too damn polite. but back to the blinds.
I was on the 2nd of 3 sets in the living room. i started with the one set in the window behind the couch. i didn't want him hanging on the couch near dusty blinds. then i moved to the two windows facing the front of the house. those blinds are not as dusty.
i was reflecting on the last time i had cleaned them. i couldn't remember, but they aren't that bad. Though i have let most of the windows go for about 5 years, i manage to clean the blinds at least once a year.
dirty windows are a real drag.
It would be depressing living with such a smeary view of the outside if i didn't have my nose in a book most of the time. Then too, the process has been slow, but i'm convinced, absolutely, that the more i rest the better my health becomes. So looking out at the neighborhood kids playing in the street, or in the park, and seeing them through windows covered with bug splats and the funk deposited by repeated cycles of condensation, reminds me of my determination to get better by getting the rest i need.
next thing i knew i was in a reverie about customers. that happens a lot. my customers are my jivanmuktis, my chosen examples of liberated beings. i thought about how one time i told a customer why i had asked to postpone a week; this was after she had graciously assented....maybe i was wiping the counters in her kitchen and we were chatting. i explained that i was tired of coming home to a dirty house and wanted to take some time off to clean my own house.
many times i have recalled that exchange and considered how thoughtless it was on my part. i used to recall it with shame. but since i have had La Koala living with me and watched her struggles with money, constantly having to send, send and send again for one ememrgency after another to her family in Mexico, i know what it is like to over look the whining of someone you feel deserves respect.
La Koala has made a couple remarks about how nice it must be to work so little. one time it really stung. i noticed myself, days after the remark, composing phrases in my mind to defend myself. but after a bit of thought i remembered how i had been treated when i showed the same sentiment. i remembered the time i whined about how dirty my house was because i was too busy cleaning for customers, and how my cusomer did not bat an eye. she over looked it. the conversation flowed right over my pebble as if no offense had been given or taken.
so i noticed a smile this time-it just came...i was all alone, enjoying my little task and there I was smiling at a memory that once made me cringe. this is the chart for the moment i noticed myself smiling about how i have learned something wonderful from the people i have 'served'.
