Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Wisdom from Wyoming

My first post. My public journal, capturing these moments that flow by so quickly, now inhabited by Hana May. These are for you baby. You now (literally) sit pooping on my lap as I type one handed. And you are soooo beautiful, child. Our Buddha baby.
So much wisdom I think is a reminder, things we forgot that we know. At the Chill spa, mountainside in Teton Village, after my heavenly facial (ice wine was in one of the masks), I sunk into the fuzzy couch with cucumber water in hand. And opened the box of zen wisdom cards, a bit skeptical and a tiny bit self conscious in my robe. But the compassion card was there just for me. Everyone is doing the best they can. Judge no one. Try to imagine what it's like for the other person. What a possibility! It totally "greased the wheels" for me for the rest of the great if somewhat sleep-deprived trip. I realized I was being a subtle and pretty constant jerk to Eric and told him, and felt my love for him deeply and newly.
Jean and Edan put on a gorgeous wedding in Jackson Hole. Everything was filled with love and lusciousness. I'll never forget the wild-caught tenderness of the cod at the Amangani reception, esp now that I've made a memorandum of it. Another highlight of the weekend was meeting Stacy and Frank Teasley and their 200 dogs. Specifically, their hospitality, Stacy's hand-cracked crab legs, Frank's stories about getting their whole operation going, and howling at the full moon with the 200 dogs in chorus. Stacy is Eric's coz Janet's husband John's sis. Extennnded family. Eric got to go on a snowmobile run to hotsprings with them too. Thanks guys! No boarding for me, still healing up, but I got to hike, and Eric shredded the mountain for both of us.
Speaking of family, here are all the cousins at the wedding. Aren't they gorgeous?
Today was a walk in the gift of 70 degree weather with Hana in Wicker Park. Sooo good roast beef sandwich at Milk and Honey Cafe. Something Hana teaches me is to look her in the eye when I engage with her. It lights her up right away. Babies are straight from God.