Zen Day

It was another good start to the day with some reasonable work done before I left at lunchtime. I made some more calls to try to get the tenants' boiler fixed and made some progress, though we are not quite there yet.

I tried the veggie World Peace cafe in the Buddhist Centre near Kelmarsh for a quiet lunch and very nice it was too. As a Christian, I'm not sure Buddhism as a way of life or a philosophy is entirely my thing (I can't sit cross legged on the floor any more for one thing), but I do fancy learning how to meditate (lying down)properly one day...

Then I nipped into Kelmarsh Hall's grassy estate land with a blanket and my camera for an hour of my own kind of meditation, at first practising macro shots of copulating crickets (as you do) (see blip) and fallen leaves etc. until the blasted battery ran out just as I was getting into it. School girl error. Not sure that did my karma energy much good!

So I decided to just go with the flow and not to get frustrated and sat and read my book and simply took in the warmth of the sun, the beautiful mature trees, autumn hedgerows and fields and the jolly chatting of the rooks (as well as some planes and the A14 in the distance!)

Lying on my front in the long grass, I got up close and personal with a myriad of insects who passed me by during their busy day - a menacing dark brown scurrying spider; a cute compact little spider climbing a thread so fine that I couldn't see it even just four inches from my nose; some microscopic bright orange bugs; assorted flies; a bee; an aphid; a tiny, shiny dark red dome of a flying insect and various other spiders and bugs, many of which were no bigger than a pin head.

When I just lie down for just twenty minutes and stare and see the intricate life teeming below my clumsy feet, I'm reminded that there's so much more to life than our narrow, selfish human existences. A good lesson in perspective for today.

Anyway....

I saw the head shrink and had a good session and am now looking forward to liver and onion for my dinner and the second episode of Game of Thrones...