Mindful together

Most of the time I am just me. Alone, with my own emotions, I breath in and out, I make plans, I obsess, I analyze, I fear, or get teary. I do my laps in the pool and look at the water bubbles that I create when I touch the water. I sit on the train and listen to music. I smell the spring and it fills my lungs. Most of the time, it's just me and all these experiences. But there are times when I experience the same emotion with another person, right at the same time, like we are one person. We both start laughing at the same time when we realize something, or we both feel tremendous pity for another person, or we both feel comfortable in the afternoon sun. Both, at the same time, the same emotion, and we know it. These are the times that I crave for. These are the times that I feel that we are more than the sum of our cells, that there is something that connects us above and beyond... and these are the times when I am, at the same time, the most and least afraid of dying.

Tagged - what I see in the morning

I was tagged by c. - what do I see in the morning when I wake up?

This is what I see when I open my eyes in the morning:


(Yes, the kitty is real and she's always there when I wake up!)

And this is what is see if I get closer to the window:



I'm tagging Raluca (with an appology for not responding to her tag earlier - my iTunes was messed up and I didn't have the patience to fix it), The Arrow, and Stingoo (because they both take beautiful pictures).

Isn't spring beautiful?

The humps of the week

Tuesdays are the new Thursdays.

We went out Tuesday night because it was Michael's birthday and I was surprised to see how many people were also out. It was a gorgeous night on the Six Feet Under deck overlooking the cemetery (there's another one in West Midtown now), with warm air, candles, and city lights in the background. And I realized how Tuesdays are the perfect days to go out in spring - once you're done with Tuesday, it's almost Friday. But Friday is too close to Sunday. Thus Tuesdays are the new Thursdays.