The Circle Led by Joan Scibienski

Sharing this with my husband who has started a meditation practice and sitting for 10 minutes is very difficult.

Minnie- please keep up the meditation! I assume you have talked with your doctor about your blood pressure and you have medication? Don't hesitate to talk with Jonee and Elaine - they give wonderful guidance about health issues!

Oh- yes! That perspective resonates with me, Romy! Thank you! And I DID meditate today- in my new, got-on-sale hammock. The wind sounded so majestic and I saw so many colors when my eyes were closed. I was feeling a little tired, achy before. Feeling great now! :)

Tamara, are you all coming in at the same time? Mitch has said he can take two people. I think Minnie has mentioned she could help - but I may have imagined that? Anyone else able to help out our West Coast folks? Thanks!

DO you mean 45 minutes at one sitting? That's a long time!

Wow - thank you, Elaine! I am going to check into some of these things. I already do some. In going through my mother's things, I have had such clarity about "stuff" and what it really means, or more to the point, doesn't mean. I have felt really good about all the donations I've taken to our local thrift store. They do a great job of merchandising items in their store and they get so much stuff (especially now with the pandemic and more people cleaning out their homes) they donate the rest to the homeless shelter and other programs helping people in need. My kids are all buy thrifted clothes for the price and to help the planet. I got so emotional thinking about what a gift my mom is giving - she was a bit of a clothes horse and had a lot of nice things that felt great to pass along.

This proves it can be done! I use the concentrated laundry strips, but I still have so many other products I use that are in plastic containers. I recycle all our plastic, but what really happens to that? (Long running discussion in my family...)

But one becomes two and so on! Thank you for these suggestions. I have been doing more research on products with less plastic and will share my impressions soon.

Thank you! These are new to me.

Day 2! I did a sleep meditation at 1:00 am but I am not counting that for Day 2! :) My weekend company (first overnight guests for a year and a half) left this morning. I'm going to smudge then meditate. It was very strange to have people in my home that weren't in my "pod" but by the last night I decided that maybe socializing in person with people you enjoy being with can be a good thing! Whew- was concerned I was going to turn into a Zoom-only person!

Christine has said she's in! Isn't that right, Christine? Oh - and I am, too! Just making if "official!"