The Great Glebe Garage Sale, 2008 edition...

[fajrdrako]

Every year my neighbourhood holds the Great Glebe Garage sale, where for a dozen blocks or more there is a large and busy community garage sale. Most years I spend a couple of hours wandering around and browsing - I love browsing through the odds and ends other people are selling! - but obviously with a broken foot I can't do that this year.

So: I am sitting at the curb outside my apartment building, selling things. Mostly books. I am sitting with my friends josanpq, Tasia and lunacy_gal, who are also selling things, and helping me to sell things, and thank goodness for them, because I couldn't do it alone. Couldn't even carry out the table I'm selling on and the chair I'm sitting on.

Typing this, I am actually in my apartment, taking a few moments to warm out. See, my apartment building casts a shadow and there seems to be a sort of wind tunnel, so that however warm it may be in general, in the sunshine, it's freezing in that spot in front of the building. I'm wearing my winter coat. I was doing all right, but I think my friends noticed I was shivering, so they sent me indoors. The budgies are glad to see me for a few minutes.

Mostly I'm selling books. No one so far wants my cute pink DVD player for only $5. I can't think why not. It's so very pink. And it works.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Is your apartment a bit of a mess just because of the Glebe sale, or did you turn it upside down trying to unearth the things you wanted to take out and sell?

It's a lot of a mess, and part of it it's because I turned it upside down looking for things to sell. It's also because the things that didn't sell got brought back in and dumped in my living room. Including a lot of empty boxes that I can't put back in my locker by myself.

I'm not complaining; it's all part of a process. The Foot slows me down. But it will all happen and the place will be stunning.

meaning, "normal = exactly like me." Sigh

No, normal doesn't mean "exactly like me", it means "behaving in a way I would expect or understand". People really aren't as narrow as you think, not most of the time. They just don't understand. (And then some are just stupid and thick.)

Have you been doing the exercises?

I certainly have.

You're intending to walk Hadrian's Wall, remember.

Yes. It's incentive. So is the official physiotherapy, starting tomorrow. Yay! I can hardly wait.

It is so hard to pick up something to eat on the fly...!

Don't go to places like Taco Bell. Get apples and fresh things - things without additives.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

No, normal doesn't mean "exactly like me", it means "behaving in a way I would expect or understand". People really aren't as narrow as you think, not most of the time. They just don't understand. (And then some are just stupid and thick.)

"People aren't as narrow as" as I was clumsily presenting at that moment in time because my articulation fell short of ideal. When I go ahead and keep talking/writing after I know I have lost the full grasp of it, things like "you are being so intolerant and narrow-minded and judgmental" occur. I regret this. The general, and that specific one.

Physiotherapy starts tomorrow? Whoa! I'm going to phone you and find out how it all went. No wonder you were already asleep when I phoned --tired out from Monday's adventures, and looking ahead to not wanting to be wiped out for Tuesday. I hope it all goes very well!

Re the clutter: yes, all part of a process. You are "in the midst." Cling to that [g]. Flow.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yea, I understand about your articulation and my characteristic response. It's one of our patterns! But I just like to remind you not to be judgemental, just as you like to remind me that you aren't as judgemental as you sound. And if I don't comment on your comments as they stand, we don't get any real communication at all - because our most interesting mutual insights have been through this kind of back-and-forth.

I've been trying to go to bed early lately. Partly because I'm tired. Partly because I don't want to fall into the habit of staying up late because I can, and then sleeping the morning or day away.

all part of a process. You are "in the midst."

The more I clean and sort things, the worse things look. But it's progress! Really!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

This is where I am not able to talk about the talking. Maybe that will work in person. I can't do more here. It's too frustrating; I feel like a fool even to try, and to fail to accomplish it. Just saying so, not to criticize or anything.

I'm making respecting your early bedtimes one of my main goals. Just you watch me. You need your rest, and I need to be thoughtful!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm making respecting your early bedtimes one of my main goals.

I was sleepy last night, but not as bad as sometimes. Didn't get through all my exercises before falling asleep, though. But I did most of them.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Do you feel them differently, the different times of the day that you do them?

And... after having said that about respecting your bedtime, I did it again. Called intending to ask two questions, and we talked for an hour! But it was such fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Do you feel them differently, the different times of the day that you do them?

Oh yes, very much so. As with yoga: I'm much stiffer in the mornings, and prefer doing exercises in the late afternoon.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Hm! Guess I'm not the only one alive who has better and worse times of the day! Interesting thought.

Are you managing to try any yoga, with your new focus on physical activity? Hope so. I know how it vitalizes you, how you love doing it.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm not the only one alive who has better and worse times of the day! Interesting thought.

I think most people have some variation of this. The yoga books talk about it.

Are you managing to try any yoga, with your new focus on physical activity?

Not really. I'm doing stretches, and some of the physio-therapy is like yoga. I'm doing some breathing exercises, too.

I look forward to the day when I can do the real thing again.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I think most people have some variation of this. The yoga books talk about it.

Really! Hm. Any that you can think of to recommend...?

[yoga] Not really. I'm doing stretches, and some of the physio-therapy is like yoga. I'm doing some breathing exercises, too.

Working up to it. Still good.

I look forward to the day when I can do the real thing again.

A worthy goal indeed.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Any that you can think of to recommend...?

Not specifically, but I'm planning to do a little yoga reading, so I'll let you know if I find something.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Iyengar is the best, you'd say...? Anything that you know of that talks more about the inner workings of yoga, rather than mainly on the physical postures?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Iyengar is the best, you'd say...?

Definitely. He does hatha yoga, which I prefer to the other kinds - if only because I've been doing it for so long. (I've done kundalini, too, and didn't like it as much.) But there's no kind of yoga that would be bad, if you like it.

Inner workings of yoga? Read Patanjali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patanjali), with commentaries. "Yoga Sutras" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga_Sutras). The basic foundations of yoga. It's a series of aphorisms, simple on the surface, but incredibly deep and dense - maybe difficult without a teacher.

The book I started with was Yoga, Youth and Reincarnation by Jess Stern - good, but journalistic and hence somewhat shallow.

One of the best books on the subject is The spirit of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Spirit-Yoga-Cat-Rham/dp/0007108826) - sorry to give you the Canadian page, but I can't get into amazon dot com just now.

I haven't read it, but you might find The Seven Spiritual Laws of Yoga (http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Spiritual-Laws-Yoga-Practical/dp/0471736279/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216387012&sr=1-23) to be good - Deepak Chopra tends to give good, clear explanations of yoga principles.