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Happy day.
Jun. 2nd, 2005 12:58 pm"To her lover a beautiful woman is a delight; to an ascetic, a distraction; to a wolf, a good meal."
- Zen poem.
I'm reading a really interesting book these days: An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. It's partly a biography of the Buddha, partly a discussion of Buddhism (and comparison of Buddhist philophy and world-view with those of various western philosophers, including Socrates, Hume, Nietzsche, etc.), and partly the author's memoir of growing up in India, being enamored of western literature and philosophy, and gradually discovering Buddhism as an adult. By Pankaj Mishra, with whom I'm very impressed. His prior book was a novel which I'm thinking I should check out.
But anyway, I just figured I'd post with happy things, because I'm having a great day. Woke up to birdsong, as it's finally warm enough to sleep with windows open. In the shower, I had all sorts of exciting new ideas for the novel (#2), so I hurriedly got dressed and then shut myself in my office (to the consternation of the dog) and wrote a few pages before breakfast. I'll write a few more this afternoon. It's gorgeous outside, and I just had a very good tuna-melt, made in our new oven which was FINALLY installed, a mere two months after we bought it, by a mumbly Dane with a fantastic accent who took over our kitchen yesterday and left it much improved. Later today I plan to spend some time pounding nails deeper into the boards of our deck, so that D can then sand it and repaint it, and then we'll be able to cross one more item off the things-our-house-really-needs list. He's getting work done again and I'm getting work done again and Frank is happy and frisky again and things are good.
Oh, and my copy of the Koran just arrived, so at some point soon I'll create that lj community and start figuring out how to get through it.
- Zen poem.
I'm reading a really interesting book these days: An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World. It's partly a biography of the Buddha, partly a discussion of Buddhism (and comparison of Buddhist philophy and world-view with those of various western philosophers, including Socrates, Hume, Nietzsche, etc.), and partly the author's memoir of growing up in India, being enamored of western literature and philosophy, and gradually discovering Buddhism as an adult. By Pankaj Mishra, with whom I'm very impressed. His prior book was a novel which I'm thinking I should check out.
But anyway, I just figured I'd post with happy things, because I'm having a great day. Woke up to birdsong, as it's finally warm enough to sleep with windows open. In the shower, I had all sorts of exciting new ideas for the novel (#2), so I hurriedly got dressed and then shut myself in my office (to the consternation of the dog) and wrote a few pages before breakfast. I'll write a few more this afternoon. It's gorgeous outside, and I just had a very good tuna-melt, made in our new oven which was FINALLY installed, a mere two months after we bought it, by a mumbly Dane with a fantastic accent who took over our kitchen yesterday and left it much improved. Later today I plan to spend some time pounding nails deeper into the boards of our deck, so that D can then sand it and repaint it, and then we'll be able to cross one more item off the things-our-house-really-needs list. He's getting work done again and I'm getting work done again and Frank is happy and frisky again and things are good.
Oh, and my copy of the Koran just arrived, so at some point soon I'll create that lj community and start figuring out how to get through it.
