Vox Hunt: Recent Purchase
Show us the last thing you bought.
I've been on a bit of a buying binge (being home alone will often call for some retail therapy), so here are the last few things that have come home with me.
.....For Izzy's purple party
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H and I went to Port Howe for a couple of nights. It was great to be
out of the city. A friend of mine rented a cottage for a few weeks and
invited us to stay a bit. People who have a cottage to go to are so
fortunate, a place to recharge and shed the stress of regular life.
Ahhh.
This was taken in Oxford through the window of a fascinating store. That's H waiting for me to finish poking around.
We got to talking to the owner who was from Newfoundland and she told
some great tales about the hauntings and goings on in that place.
It used to be a hardware store, the oldest in Cumberland County, built sometime in early 1800. When they were renovating, a paint can flew off the ladder and shot down the counter. Another time she had the door shut and was alone, dancing away to the old Wurlitzer juke box, when a small mirror that they had on the door, shot off the door and across to the the counter again. It did it twice. She figured maybe the ghost of old Mr. Dunstead(?) didn't like change. She then took crazy glue and stuck it to the door, it dropped to the floor later.
They live in the apartment upstairs and that is a busy spot too:) Who knows, fun to hear tales like that tho....
I took a picture of her just after her stories and when I tried to upload it, it was a corrupted file. Did not work.
And if you don't believe it, here's the wikipedia entry.
- 20:28 at The Buddhist House for Amida Ministry Team meetings #
- 21:17 hot chocolate in bed - the luxury #
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The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said, "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." "I am nothing" does not mean that there is a bleak wasteland within. It does mean that with awareness we open to a clear, unimpeded space, without center or periphery - nothing separate. If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love. Being nothing in this way, we are also, inevitably, everything. "Everything" does not mean self-aggrandizement, but a decisive recognition of interconnection; we are not separate. Both the clear, open space of "nothing" and the interconnectedness of "everything" awaken us to our true nature. This is the truth we contact when we meditate, a sense of unity beyond suffering. It is always present; we merely need to be able to access it.
~ Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
..at the Buddhist House late afternoon after a long journey involving a diversion as the A1 was closed by a horrible accident. (Cynthia SatNav - on my BlackBerry - was a great boon as the police hadn't marked all the diversionary route out, that not being a priority one can imagine, and I was on foreign-to-me roads) Sudana has been an excellent Guest Master. And I've met the gorgeous Buddhist Baby, Jake - 9 months old and the son of Amida Chaplain, Mudita....I'm in love! Now for an early night before our day of Ministry Team meeting.
Cheap, fast sushi bowls right downstairs.
I got tickets to see Elton John in September! Yay! Very exciting. Very EXPENSIVE, but he is one of my big faves. An icon. We will be on the floor, I wanted lower bowl but clicked on "the best available seats" and this is what we got. I love his music. Benny and the Jets! I used to work at a pizza/pub place in Toronto when I was 19 . They had a juke box full of great music and every night after closing, I would blast that song while putting the chairs up on the tables and sweeping the floors. Brings me right back every time I hear it.
In other news, my vinyl painting sold! I went down to the gallery yesterday to get a picture of it in daylight and couldn't find it anywhere. Gone! Someone on vacation from the US purchased it. I am happy but sad that it is not there for anyone to see anymore.
I have ten small flower paintings for sale at Love, Me Boutique. That was a fun project. Something bright and cheerful for summer.
My last bit of Friday catchup is a bit odd. H and I have sponsored a girl from Nicaragua for several years. I just got a message from them this week saying my sponsorship of her has stopped, she is out of the program. Said it doesn't happen very often but this is the case here. My Virmania has gotten MARRIED. She is 13! Turning 14 in November. I was VERY surprised. The letter did address that and said although it is uncommon, early marriages do take place still . They have partnered us with a new wee girl named Darling.
It's the middle of the month and my head is spinning. Mostly I wonder where June went.
