Just now, as I opened this page to collect my thoughts, I received the notice that I started this blog five years ago as of this very minute.
Five years.
Only yesterday, I blogged my 250th post.
How very sporadic, has been my life.
How very sporadic has been my consciously focused attention…
What’s funny is that I was trying to think of a way to describe how non-mundane the past 36 hours have been. It’s felt like a veritable “cascade of surprises”, even though individually they are very everyday sorts of occurrences that just happen to be popping out of the blue nearly all at once. So here comes another “happens all the time” surprise, that in my own life, I didn’t realize was coming:
So very ordinary, yeah? No gilded scrollwork, no fireworks, but a kind encouragement sent to everyone regardless of whether they’re blogging good or not. A humbly supportive “congratulations, five years have passed and you’re here to receive this message.” And I think that’s pretty fantastic.
So I’m choosing to take that “W within the Laurels” as a personal symbol for my practice over the next few days. I am going to kick my zen practice up a notch, and truly recognize the miraculous side of the mundane details, while also recognizing the everyday-ness of the surprising and spectacular.
Somehow, that takes some of the edge off the oddness of the past couple of days. It also helps me feel prepared for the surprises yet to come.
I did sort of ask for it, didn’t I?
Nynia in the Now 
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