Madhouse Book Club - February 8, 2014 at 703 Bestgate, Annapolis, MD

Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

Wind and Window Flower by Robert Frost

LOVERS, forget your love,

  And list to the love of these,

She a window flower,

  And he a winter breeze.

When the frosty window veil

Was melted down at noon,

And the cagèd yellow bird

  Hung over her in tune,

He marked her through the pane,

  He could not help but mark

And only passed her by,

  To come again at dark.

He was a winter wind,

  Concerned with ice and snow,

Dead weeds and unmated birds,

And little of love could know.

But he sighed upon the sill,

  He gave the sash a shake,

As witness all within

  Who lay that night awake.

Perchance he half prevailed

  To win her for the flight

From the firelit looking-glass

  And warm stove-window light.

But the flower leaned aside

 And thought of naught to say,

And morning found the breeze

  A hundred miles away.

Go with the flow (and its corollary).  Free AND control.  Smart versus wise.  Lighten up.  So you want to change schools? ... OK.  Sugar.  ee cummings.  Laurel Mellin, UCSF.  Need some action strategy.  Stress.  Brain research of Daniel Amen.  Sun/Sleep/Eat/Move/Train.  Page 154.  Page 161.  Check in.  Check out.  Addiction.  Just stop.  Just appreciate, honor, observe.  Awareness & consciousness.  Hang out.