Wednesday, August 15. 2007
Gina's Quote Du Jour (DeGeneres)
I was in yoga the other day. I was in full lotus position. My chakras were all aligned. My mind is cleared of all clatter and I'm looking out of my third eye and everything that I'm supposed to be doing. It's amazing what comes up, when you sit in that silence. 'Mama keeps whites bright like the sunlight, Mama's got the magic of Clorox 2.' - Ellen DeGeneresAh, the challenge of "blocking it all out"...!
Today I spent the day with a 4 1/2-year-old little girl (among several other various aged children at my home daycare) who would - or could - not stop sound from issuing from her mouth. I mean this in the most literal sense...for over seven continuous hours she was talking, screaming, whining, singing, whistling, crying, humming, spitting and any other noise that can be made with a human mouth. She would ask a question, then talk right over the answer, so she would ask again...and again...! I don't know how she managed to eat and drink because the chattering went on all through lunch and snack time. She also has only one volume level, that being inappropriately loud.
Wow...now that it's is quiet and there are not constantly words flying loudly in all directions around my head like a swarm of angry bees, I realize how dizzying the experience was! It would be lovely to take a little time, silent and alone, for meditation this evening...but frankly I'm afraid what will fill my sound void...her off-key and incomplete version of a Veggie Tales song she must have heard recently...the blood-curdling screams she let fly when she felt persecuted by her older brother, or maybe just my name repeated over and over and over and over...until I swear I want to change it! I've always been partial to the name Claire...
I'm going to go find a place to enjoy some "sounds of silence" and try to (re)gain a little peace of mind. I think I'll go hang out with my cats...they know what to do when Mama's wound up!
I'm going to go find a place to enjoy some "sounds of silence" and try to (re)gain a little peace of mind. I think I'll go hang out with my cats...they know what to do when Mama's wound up!
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