Letting Go has been a bit of a theme for me lately. I was off early for the holidays and had a list of great stuff I was gonna do - tons ‘o fun. And life *totally* happened. My family got sick and for one reason or another I couldn’t do *any* of the things on my list.

I was pretty pissed off about it too. I just couldn’t let go of the expectations and hopes I had for my vacation. And now that my holiday is in decent view thanks to hindsight, I can see that I didn’t need to necessarily let go of my anger and disapointment. It wasn’t about trying to find the silver lining - who am I trying to kid? It would have been a start just to let go of the fact that things *needed* to be different.

I’ve been listening to some Zencasts and in Zencast 33 he talks about finding the place in meditation where you can just be transparent. You’re transparent enough that the thoughts and emotions happen, but they just flow through you, you don’t identify with them. He uses the example of a river flowing and how the water doesn’t get caught on the rocks, it just flows. I love that. The water doesn’t stop and argue with the rocks and get all pissed of at them for being there you know? It just flows around them. I talked about this last night in Power Yoga class and someone said, ‘and the water can be OK with that because over time it erodes the rocks’. Ha! So true.