A tourists afternoon... before our tourists day

Our day of museums was preceded by an afternoon spent with the seals on Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf. The sun beamed off of their felty coats and their loud yelps of talking are always fun to substitute with english speaking thoughts. Their basking is so simple and so happy. That is how they spend their days, their lives. I wondered if I could stand the same? Our lives have become so busily induced, we think lying under the sky of sun is lazy. We think quiet is boring. Our ears are stuffed with buds that have wires leading to battery powered entertainment. Keeping us from the sounds of the buses and birds and wind around us. I know how hard it is to face the thoughts that swirl and complicate and plague our minds. I recently took a yoga class. I was preparing to go in and a girl in the locker room had just finished her hour and a half class. Her subject with her classmate was how a "crazy" on match.com was stalking her, blah blah blah. Sweat was dripping from her, her body loose, her mind - complicated. My mind - judgmental. Good thing I was just heading in. Perhaps my judgement was not that at all, perhaps just observant. You see, I have been watching the patterns of the mind in these quiet days off of work. We just keep thinking about the insignificant, all the while, convincing ourselves of its importance. Who did what to me when, how I could have been better, what should I do tomorrow - next week, I am fat, I am short, I wish I had, I wish I was... The seals are fat and not so pretty, yet they possess great beauty. They don't wish to be better sun bathers. Instead, in their minds (and I am assuming here), they simply feel the sun, they eat when they are hungry, they love each other and snarl when feeling crowded to let their family and friends know to scoot. And they scoot or they don't scoot and feel solid in the decision either way. No spending the day feeling bad because they scooted too far or not enough. It is sunny today. That is what I am going to spend the day with. I suppose I am not saying anything new and maybe only reminding myself but maybe, just maybe, your sun will be a bit brighter for you today too. 

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[regina]

thank you D.