Morning 9/10/07

Warm sun shining through east-facing window. Awareness of breath: steady, relaxed. Thoughts arise and fall with the breath. I can notice these thoughts while still attending to breath. Cat sits on the couch beside me, touching my thigh. Feeling the rise and fall of his breath as well. Thoughts of aging, how quickly time goes. I startle as phone rings, let it ring. Thoughts of old friends. Thoughts of what I'm going to do today, preparations for the day. Sounds of train, distant freeway traffic, dog barking, noting how they form a kind of sound landscape, feeling how sound passes through my body, a momentary feeling of transparency.