spiritual prescription

[fflo]

I have just realized I need to exhaust myself physically.

I've been exercising myself to the limits emotionally, and wearing myself out with coffee and not much sleep, and even working the noggin to the point of rubbery brains now & then. But it's been a fortnight since I went & used up the better part of the energy of my plain ol' pure muscles, bloodstream, lungs.

One of the lessons of this stage of my life has been how very good for me that occasional practice can be.

When life is so clearly instructive about something, why do we sometimes have such a hard time learning the lesson?

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

yes, you know my resistance to routine, but i have to hand it to schedule/discipline here. funny i didn't see this comment before responding to the one above with the discipline/practice idea.

the first glimpse i had of something zen-like in ordinary dailiness was an appreciation for tooling along (which i what i use this scout finch icon to represent, sometimes) associated very much with the phrase "takin' care of business" (or TCB, in 70s parlance). too easy to forget the business of the bod' when you grew up as i did, and when there's the business of the job and the business of the dishes and the business of the bills and the business of the laundry and the business of the movies. yeah, the movies doesn't fit in one way, but i have made it fit in a way in a way.

dang, back to the subcontinent. but yeah the movie sounds good. i think bigfinedaddy was interested, and squirrelykat too.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

make that "that scout finch icon above" --- or this one here :]