Journal Entry Date: 10 Feb 2004
Thought for the Day: Keep your eye/mind fixed on your ideal and be steady in your practice.
Thank you, Lord, for warmer weather.
Brought to eye/mind today: The memory-feeling of an encounter while I was working as a clerk at a local store. A German man wearing camouflage (hunters wear it a lot in Alaska), came in and wanted assistance with looking at items in a locked cabinet. As I stood next to him, retrieving articles he wanted to examine, I was embraced by a sense of being enclosed together in an intimately shared space and felt emotionally as well as physically close to him. I knew at the time that he was very likely married and that he came from a social system in which I would be an unwelcome hanger-on. But it was a delightful and intriguing moment. Today I remembered it when wandering mentally into considering what it feels like to be in love.
Also to eye/mind today: Have always been attracted to jewelry that depicts the moon and stars, and both are often depicted in my art pieces. And I've studied astrology. And I orient myself to the North Star in meditation. And I'm always interested in pictures of nebulae. And...
Journal:
>A lot of guys saying "Hi" to me today.
>Looks like spring breakup outside.