It's not even been 3 full days yet, this is completely mental. I got the jeep towed this morning, and now the garage just called to say it's ready to pick up. From the time it was towed to the time I received the phone call, I went through all the scenario, too expensive, too broken, the jeep maybe broke on the road there.. also the garage said that it would take at least a week to get to it... I didn't know what I could do during that time. Life... LIFE! What's up? I really have to put in practice this equanimity, but when facing new events that I have no control over, I get really anxious. Now that it's all resolved, I am all happy again. Why did I freak out in the first place? This afternoon, I was picking blueberry in the garden, all by myself. A wind was coming from the lake, the sun shining on top of the mountain, shaded by some tree, and the blueberry bush itself. My hands would travel a branch up, only picking the ripe one. The noise of the branches, the colors the movement, all felt psychedelic for an instance. Very primal and connected to the earth. This human experience is so wonderful and beautiful in all its details, it's hard to stay in your head when you are in a field of blueberries. I cried a bit too, hiding behind a bush, I didn't want anyone to see me. I felt miserable, dumped by my wife, I broke her car, I broke my car, I couldn't pick up my daughter on Friday since I had no car. I just felt like a broken single dad who can't get his shit together, an asshole of a dad, a shitless of a husband, it was really intense self loathing... I don't really feel like that, just in that moment. I really feel like I'm on acid lately. All these ups and down, I do feel like I'm going crazy. I mean, I don't dislike it, but the intensity seems to have been turned up. When you're on acid everything is MORE. You walk down the street and everything is intense. I once was walking in the street of a calm suburb, and my friend and I was on acid. He saw a cute dog, and I was like, "awww cute dog" and my friend was like "oh shit no... this dog is going to get rolled over by a car... noo..." and of course the next car that drove by kind of roll on the dog, a bit, just enough to get pulled in and yelling, and the car slowed down, and once the driver saw the dog was okay, just darted away. Like that's just one easy example of what I mean by everything is intense on acid. But my life feels like this now. The world seems psychedelic, my interaction with nature, with others, with the world. (my writing in interrupted by 2 texts, from 2 women, who have express interest in me, being single.. It's the first time in a month that they contacted me. They don't know each others, but it seems like, the bio/social clock of "it's been long enough they broke off, now is time to reach out" rang at the same day, a couple hour difference) In any case, I found the word to a song that was in my head for the last many years: I have nothing to offer thee cause nothing is mine I grieve not but I cannot give, cause nothing is mine, nothing is mine Here I lay at your feet my lord My life, my limbs, my thoughts and my speech, Cause they are thine, cause they are thine. I like this song, because it remove a lot of the idea of creating a beautiful offering to the divine. I have nothing to offer to the divine, because it's all divine to start with. Here a piece of what you are already. What do you offer to what? If everything is consciousness, you're simply moving part of consciousness. Reading "Conscious Uncoupling" it feels pretty good. It's a really good update on the fantasy of love and life long relationship. Relationship don't last forever, grow a pair, and learn from it. It's pretty much the idea of the book.