January 1, 2009
"If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the universe. What looks like weakness to the ego is in fact the only true strength. This spiritual truth is diametrically opposed to the values of our contemporary culture and the way it conditions people to behave." — Eckhart Tolle
This morning upon waking, a recurring sense of anxiety, fear, in the pit of my belly — is that always there and I deal with it by getting online? There is the fear of being forgotten, of being inundated, and there is the fear of the post office.
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Utah Phillips on the radio -- did he die? I can't get online so I can't see. Usually I look at the New York Times obit bookmark tab. But the printed NYT doesn't have the full obits. Right now I'm listening to WMPG out of the University of Southern Maine. (They later shared that Utah died in May 2008...he never got to see the coalescence of the Democratic Party that eventually got Obama elected.)
It's 4:25 p.m. and I miss my parents. It's weird.
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This evening, a wave of fear came over me about "what if" / what could happen — war, illness, etc. — normally I would have jumped online.
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