Evening 8/31/07

A day off from work which I spent resting, relaxing. Went to Barnes and Noble and had my favorite soy chai latte and a slice of warm spinach/artichoke strata. Went to the library and checked out some books: Born on a Blue Day, and The Book of Dave. Also, some audio books: something about angels falling from the sky by the guy who wrote Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Temple Grandin's book about animal communication and consciousness. I have been enjoying listening to books as I drive to work, very easy to finish a book in a short time. In the last week I've "read" Plan B by Anne Lamott and The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion in this way. No formal meditation practice today. But something I might call mindfulness of sleeping. I stretched out on the couch and put 5 CD's on to play: one by Solas, Altan, Krishna Das, mood music, Celtic ragas. I felt the music interweave itself among my thoughts as I was sleeping. The cat especially seems to enjoy music.