Be Still

April 7, 2008
I decided today that I am much better at keeping an online journal than a handwritten journal. The Aquarian side of me (I am on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarian) wants to keep a written journal on parchment paper. However, it is one more thing to pack. So, for now it is online. Perhaps I’ll print this off on some organic looking paper and make my own journal. I am in Boston. I am staying at the Hampton on 811 Massachusetts Avenue. I don’t think this is a very posh neck of the woods but I like it. I had dinner at a restaurant called the Equator. I think it’s Tai food. I had pasta because everything is cooked with chicken broth. My pasta took a long time to fix so they must have made it ‘special’ in just plain old H2O. Walking back in the dusk I was a bit apprehensive as I walked past trash accumulated along the curb. This was not just random trash but piles and piles of it. Obviously trash pick up is tomorrow (we’ll see) but this is something I’m not use to. I did have a flash back as I walked along these row houses. An old Audrey Hepburn movie, Wait Until Dark. The row houses had basement apartments with the windows behind black gates. I felt like I was in the movie. I remember being so afraid watching blind Audrey Hepburn navigate her way in the dark. How interesting I just received the text from Joe Grant’s Keenan lecture Seeing in the Dark: Spiritual Resources for Peace and Justice in Troubled Times. Raise your gaze and be aware. I am so blessed. God sends me messages all the time. I must stop, and listen and raise my gaze; be still in the storm……………………………….Thank you God.