HOW TO EAT A BANANA USING ZEN BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES OF MINDFULNESS

 

We Begin by becoming fully present with
our banana.

 

We take our first bite, taking the time to fully
savor its flavor, texture, softness...mmmm.
There is no hurry, we linger in the moment.

 

We do not hesitate to give thanks for the 
joy of our banana.


 

As a reward for our gratitude and mindfulness,
we are gifted more banana by the Universe.
We are humbled.

 

(We don't dwell too long on humility.)

 

We are not frustrated the whole piece won't
fit in our mouth in one bite. We are patient;
allowing the moment to unfold in a way
which we have faith is best for us.
("Get IN THERE ALREADY, BANANA!")

 

Be sure to assume a sage-like countenance.

 

Relax and become ONE with the Big Banana...
Visualize it in smaller bite-size pieces, like how we
divide up large tasks into small ones...like escaping 
Runabout & Peeing where Vinni and Yum-Yum have been 
on their Runabouts to let 'em know who's boss!
Allow our eating and mischief to flow like a gentle stream
slowly towards the calm oceans of peace within.
We let go any thoughts of aggression about climbing into
Vinni's cage and peeing and pooh-ing it just to annoy him.

 

SMILE!

 

Content in mind, body, and spirit by our
mindful banana-eating practice,
we leave the scene of the crime - I mean
the SacredBananaBreakfastSpot very slowly,
counting each in-breath & out-breath, 
thanking the universe for banana to sustain both our 
upper SharkTail and lower "man parts" now
jiggle and juggling above & beneath us as we waddle
mindfully off to digest our spiritual food before
carefully practicing each Balance Beam maneuver
we will perform in the 2012 London OlympiGz!


Be Calm, my friends, Be Like Bhindi...
(hee-hee!)
Om.

EDITORIAL STAFF MEETING FOR READERS' BENEFIT

YumYum has called us all to an editorial meeting about our blog. As Editor-in-Chief, he has the right to do these sorts of things. What he wants us to do is keep it snappy, zippy, add panache and pizzazz, and put a lid on mom's ongoing pie-hole of "blah, blah, blah" stream of consciousness trains of thoughts not even connected to the same train all leading in different directions pulling into different stations.
(not to be discriminating, but we aren't the ones with traumatic brain injury, so why should YOU, our BELOVED READERS, have to suffer?)


This is a guinea pig blog: By the Pigs, about the Pigs, and For the Pigs.
And our friends.
Who don't have lots of time.
Prepare for a new look!
Coming soon from the gray zone.
WHEEEEEEEEEK!  

Psssssst! Vinni? You There? Let's take Bhindi's Breakfast!

FOR KEZIA...

 

Dear Kezia,

We drew this for you last July and - OOPS!

Forgot to finish and send it to

Our Favorite 7th grader in the WORLD!

The title, if you can read the tiny letters in the

lower left, are: "KEZIA'S KINGDOM"

love,

all us here

Nightly News: ‘Super Moon’ to light up night sky

Nightly News: ‘Super Moon’ to light up night sky:

'via Blog this'
look: "Super Mom!"
no, that's "Moon!"
"oh."

BEST FRIENDS!

 

This is my best friend since 1975, Jerry, and Cyndi, his music partner (he also has an amazing wife!) right before their performance at a "Bob and Beatles" Concert. Have NO idea who Bob is, Beatles good 'nuff for us.  Jer attended BOTH Woodstocks, the original 3-Day Woodstock and the ReUnion, too. While Cyndi writes the best songs and they have made CD's but my favorite song is one about a starfish she wrote. Jerry's played guitar for me, taught me how to birdwatch, almost got us eaten by a 'gator in the Okeefenokee Swamp back in the 1970's, and introduced me to the poetry of Walt Whitman, Blake, the Transcendentalists, Thoreau, played vinyl recordings of Richard Burton reciting "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" for me when I lived in a little attic room in Atlanta where he and his wife still live (not in an attic) but Atlanta in a small cabin with an owl box! Jerry now has an owl who comes and sits on a branch just outside his window whenever he is ill. True: it comes and watches over him...In many ways, I can trace my life as an adult (I was about 18 when we met? something) all the good passion for nature and birds and wildlife and writing and travelling in swamps and places full of birdsong influenced by his friendship and it remains so to this day. He is in me, has been since we met. Funny how you don't realize stuff like that until way later.


Nothing in life compares to having a good friend for life.
I am convinced that we are still together because we never fell
in love and got married! We simply love each other. Always have. Always will!
And we had ADVENTURES.
REALLY, REALLY GREAT ADVENTURES.


Miss ya, bro.

Rain, Rain, Rain! But the LETTUCE is delicious!

 

You all know I'm not one to complain so don't be thinking to
yourselves, "Ah, we can feel a complaint comin' on, we can."
Because you'd be wrong.
MOM'S THE COMPLAINER. WHINER. 
GRAY AND RAIN.
NO LATTE.
OH BUGGERS, WHY EVEN GET UP?
She decided the only reason was to play with us. 
And despite deadlines and grown up stuff, that's exactly
what we did!
See, no complaints!

B Roll Appleby location shots - YouTube

B Roll Appleby location shots - YouTube:
^^^^look! see WHERE FAIRY LIVES: TRANQUILITY AND...SUNSHINE????????????
'via Blog this'

IT IS STILL WINTER HERE. RAINY. GRAY. COLD. GRAY. SNOWY IN THE MOUNTAINS. GRAY. SKY IS GRAY. LAND IS GRAY. IN BETWEEN IS GRAY. IT'S ALL GRAY AND COLD, GRAY AND WET, GRAY AND GRAY.
GRAY AND WINDY AND WET. GRAY AND YOU CAN'T TELL THE SEA FROM THE LAND WET. GRAY YOU CAN'T TELL THE SEA FROM THE SKY GRAY. GRAY YOU CAN'T TELL WHERE THE OCEAN, LAND, ISLANDS, OR MOUNTAINS ARE IT'S THAT GRAY!LIKE AS IN STAY IN BED GRAY!
GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY
FAIRY AND HER MUM HAVE BIG BIRTHDAYS COMING UP AND WE ARE GOING TO APPLEBY.################
GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY
AND WE MAY STAY THERE!#########
FAIRY'S MUM NOT ONLY OWNS AN ESPRESSO MACHINE, SHE TOOK A CLASS IN MASTER-CRAFTS-CAVY-COFFEE-MAKING!GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY GRAY ###
IT IS STILL WINTER HERE. DID WE MENTION WE ARE MOVING TO APPLEBY?
WHERE FAIRY LIVES?##################
HAVE WE ASKED THEM FIRST?#########
UH...(psssssssst! anyone ask? no?)###########
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YES, OF COURSE WE HAVE!############