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Exhausted flop
Sep. 23rd, 2018 08:05 pmThis was ... a rather busy weekend.
Yesterday, one of the choirs I'm in had a retreat 9-3. I didn't go the full time (I don't do well getting up earlier than 9) but the first hour is social stuff anyway, so I got there around 10:30 and had only missed some of the singing. And a) one of the pieces is one I've done before, and b) I'm a damn good sightreader, so I caught up pretty easily. But I came home and zoned out -- didn't even have enough brain to watch Netflix.
Today, my church hosted a Contemplative Practices retreat in the afternoon. There were five different types of c.p. -- everything from centering meditation to soul collage to spiritual direction -- and when you signed up you picked two as things you'd like to explore or learn about. It was good, but intense. And I did soul collage (where there are a bunch of cut out images and you pick ones that call to you -- she had us pick only two, a background and s foreground -- and make a collage and then there are some journaling questions where you can explore what the card means and what it is offering you and stuff like that) and the card I made is insisting that it is one of a triptych, because it's fire based and it needs a water card and a life card. (I can't tell whether it also wants a fourth one, but I guess I will find out.) The person running it is hosting a longer session on oct 9, and I may have to sign up for that.
I am completely exhausted, and tomorrow won't help (mondays are rehearsal nights, therefore late), but it's the good kind of happy. Like when Yahtzee comes home after a walk, and he splats on the tile floor, panting, with his tongue flopping out and a big grin on his face.
Yesterday, one of the choirs I'm in had a retreat 9-3. I didn't go the full time (I don't do well getting up earlier than 9) but the first hour is social stuff anyway, so I got there around 10:30 and had only missed some of the singing. And a) one of the pieces is one I've done before, and b) I'm a damn good sightreader, so I caught up pretty easily. But I came home and zoned out -- didn't even have enough brain to watch Netflix.
Today, my church hosted a Contemplative Practices retreat in the afternoon. There were five different types of c.p. -- everything from centering meditation to soul collage to spiritual direction -- and when you signed up you picked two as things you'd like to explore or learn about. It was good, but intense. And I did soul collage (where there are a bunch of cut out images and you pick ones that call to you -- she had us pick only two, a background and s foreground -- and make a collage and then there are some journaling questions where you can explore what the card means and what it is offering you and stuff like that) and the card I made is insisting that it is one of a triptych, because it's fire based and it needs a water card and a life card. (I can't tell whether it also wants a fourth one, but I guess I will find out.) The person running it is hosting a longer session on oct 9, and I may have to sign up for that.
I am completely exhausted, and tomorrow won't help (mondays are rehearsal nights, therefore late), but it's the good kind of happy. Like when Yahtzee comes home after a walk, and he splats on the tile floor, panting, with his tongue flopping out and a big grin on his face.