Saturday, April 5

night sit on the porch.

surveyers were here again today, preparing the land behind our house for the new house that will be built soon. i've decided to leave my sit spot pine to the woodcocks for now; they will be facing enough disruption in their lives with the building, they don't need it from my presence, too.

quiet night, but for the sound of water trickling over the earth and people going by in cars.

did my body scan and then the sense meditation. these two exercises simply transport me from one universe into another, from the world of my thoughts that only exists inside my head to the actual world around me - the night, the cold, the wintry smell, the lay of the land, the grass and pooled water and snow. i find, too, that when i tune in to my sight, hearing, touch, and smell, and then hold them all at once, that my sense of connection to the world - the sense of my actual physical connection to things - feels like it expands to include everything i am sensing, and i develop an intuitive sense, a sense of the energy of them. these ropes of sensing extend to the forest further from me, since i can hear things happening in it, and to the land upwind from me, because i can smell scents coming from there.