The inconvenient truth is that the very first tropical storm of the season is already picking up speed and intensity and threatening to become a hurricane. It's path looks like it will miss Atlanta (but thanks for the good wishes, Kat), although parts of Florida are already being evacuated.I'll blog about last Saturday's very successful Zen hike soon, but the breakneck pace I set myself on last week is only picking up tempo, and I haven't had the time all weekend to update this blog. I didn't get back from the mountains until after 10 pm, and Sunday I was booked solid between an afternoon meeting with my counterpart in another neighborhood on The Big Project, and, miraculously, time found for a Sunday night date.
This evening I had my usual Monday night service at the Center, after a full day's work, after the morning service at the center. This week will be more of the same - morning service, workday work, evening meeting of one sort or the other for five of the five nights. Oh, yeah, and on top of it all, a hurricane's coming through.
But the beauty of it all is that despite this hectic pace, while sitting at the zendo this evening, the only thing that mattered was this very moment, the only action needed was the next breath.
Update (6/13/06): Okay, so Alberto didn't turn into a hurricane after all. That's not a bad thing.
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And you might think the hurricane season is off to an early start with tropical storm in the second week of the "season". Seasons have been knocked on their ass. The last two weeks we have had precipitation rates that are two standard deviations above historical norms. The pattern of the storms is what is ominous...they were winter storm tracks, "nor'easters" with the low traveling up along the coast but offshore where it could energize itself and fetch in very damp air. We had half a years rainfall in less than a month.
Hope it stalls and dies before it reaches you (and don't sleep near any windows).
If you like Will Farrell, you'll probably think this is funny:
http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=1147&pID=725752
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