Dear Anita,

Happy Monday.  I hope you had a pleasant weekend.  It was more spring like here, and I enjoyed the weather.

What has come to mind this weekend, especially yesterday are the concepts of: The Disney World (TDW) and the concept that you so aptly described as:

what’s here is not good, what’s good is over there

now that what is over there is here – it is no longer good, what is good is over there.

I notice that I feel I have “plateaud” with my learning of this.  If that makes sense.  I feel as though there is the next step in the journey in regards to these concepts.  Where i obtain a deeper level of appreciating what’s here, and focus less on what’s there.  By not “over-appreciating/over-emphasizing” what’s over there (which often times is not even over there) but also – by not always being so observant.

What I mean by this, as that I know the concept of being content in your own world, and say you’re on a walkm you’re not constantly seeing “oh look what she’s wearing that’s nice, oh look at that family how happy, oh their food looks really good..”

All of these observations are benign enough, but overall – as time goes on (and I have noticed) you end that walk perhaps not even realizing where you walked to and if you enjoyed it, instead full of a flurry of outward observations.  This happened to me yesterday as we had a beautiful walk in NYC on a spring sunday.

This thing – that I describe, is what I intend to work on.