Bed (96/365)

Bed (96/365), originally uploaded by :Duncan.

I’ve spent the last two days in bed, all fluey and ill.

The wood thing is a ‘bed desk’. A great invention! You can lie in bed, watch movies, type, whatever. You lie underneath it and can adjust the angle of the tilt to suit you. Get them on eBay, coming in from China. I think this was the medium size one, fitting the 15″ MacBook Pro perfectly. The headphones are the most excellent Grado SR60, from Grado Labs in Brooklyn.

An ancient pond. A frog jumps in. Plop! (86/365)

From the excellent book on meditation: The Everyday Meditator. I started doing the Dynamic Meditation from it today. It made me queasy and it’s a long time since I felt nausea. Is it the worse feeling? One of them. It was also hard work: 10 minutes of breathing deeply, moving the body. 10 minutes of catharsis, letting out whatever you feel. 10 minutes of jumping up and down, hoo-ing. 15 minutes stopped dead still. 15 minutes dancing. It’s a stirring meditation, based on the idea that if ‘modern man’ attempts to sit quietly, he just can’t do it, so bound up are we in our issues and thought patterns. This ‘meditation’ supposedly gets things moving, allowing release of deep stored emotions and habits. We’ll see. More on this later.