Time has its own agenda
From a terrific Northern Exposure episode last night (the one where Maurice buys a very expensive antique German clock):
Time has its own agenda ... there's no stopping it.
Continued NX dream
In that NX episode I was there, and I was one of the characters with Ed and Maurice. There was an out of town guy, and Maurice was trying to sell him on the town, and the guy was telling Maurice about the wonders outside of town.
At some point we find some quarters that are embedded in the ground. Ed picks up some, but not some others. I end up picking them up, but at some point Ed had turned into one of my dogs, and he refused to have anything to do with these quarters. I had to wonder what was wrong with them, if they were dirty, or something else.
NX and money, invisible at SBUX, being blind
Just finished an Northern Exposure (NX) dream, where at the end of the dream Holling ends up paying a guy. He gives the money to a young man that he works with. While the young man holds the money, the older man blesses the young man. He performs a ceremony, doing a cross, and the ashes on his forehead. By the end of the ceremony the young man has changed, he's covered in paint or ashes ... he holds the money up, and blesses us, and thanks us for the money, holding the money in the air.
"You just gotta do something bad"
Here's a favorite quote from a Northern Exposure episode:
"Sometimes Ed, sometimes you just gotta do something bad ... just to know you're alive."
I know that feeling well.
This quote came from Chris Stevens, talking to Ed Chigliak, at the end of an episode named "Spring Break". If you know NX, you might recall this episode ends with the famous "Running of the bulls".
A dying bird on the road
Today gets to be remembered as the day that I drove over a bird on the road as it was fighting for its own life, and rapidly losing that battle.
Email about meditation, church, Northern Exposure
Email reply to a friend:
Regarding the life of a hermit, in my own experience living in isolation, I found that the quiet life helped my experiences. In meditation I felt the blood flow throughout my entire body, felt sound as a sensation on my skin as well as in my ears, and also stayed mentally awake as my body fell asleep. It's a very cool feeling to be fully conscious as your sense of hearing fades away. There were more things than that, but I also found that I need to be around people, which was a big shock to me.
