"Sauntering" is not in my vocabulary.

Yesterday, Chip and I had a very productive (albeit) busy day cleaning and rearranging the house. We keep quite a tidy home, but it came the time to start really throwing out the crap we've collected and don't need or want. We're also getting in several new pieces of furniture and wanted to remove the older pieces and rearrange what we are keeping so it works with the new furniture. Anyway, if anyone knows me, I'm a bit of a micro-manager when it comes to delegating tasks. I do, admittedly, bang my proverbial "drum" to get things done quickly and efficiently. Yes. I'm a task master.

So, with that being said, I was under the gun as far as time. I awoke at 9am, and got to cleaning, due to the fact that by noon, I had to get my work done for my job. With several hours of impeding job-related duties ahead, I wanted to get the cleaning out as soon as possible. And then Chip woke up and decided to help...

He's a good little cleaner, don't get me wrong. But he tends to stray from the task at hand, or find something he hasn't seen in months and sort through it (as if he'll ever actually remember that he has it a few months from now) and I'm running around picking up things, throwing them away, going through closets and drawers--clearly harried for time. Yes, I want it done, and I want it done now.

So I stop, breathe and ask him if he wants to go to Starbucks for a coffee and breakfast before we start deep cleaning. Yes, he replies. As we're down the street waiting for our coffee, he regales me that the day is "World Sauntering Day," which he explains is:

World Sauntering Day is an annual holiday celebrated on the 19th of June each year. The purpose is to remind us to take it easy, smell the roses, and enjoy life as opposed to rushing through it. It is also sometimes referred to as International Sauntering Day.

In my hurried state, thinking of the cleaning still left to do, and the work I have to start in less than an hour, I'm not not sure this is entirely possible for me to deal with at the moment. I start pushing him out the Starbucks to get back to the house and ask him why he's being such a slowpoke. And of course, in Chip like fashion, he says, "Well, that's because I'm sauntering today." In which, I reply, "Well I don't have time for that shit. Saunter some other time, we got shit to do."

So much for sauntering day, but the house is as clean as a whistle. Good job, Cosbys.

Chat Screen Shot: It's a doozy.

*Click on the image for full-size and readability. --B.

I'm aware that I'm not aware.

Chip: The way I view things is that nothing seeps in. The simple things are not obvious to us, we have no awareness of the easiest things to recognize. In fact, they are so obvious we forget about them in or daily lives.

Me: I'm in a food coma. I'm really not even paying attention. How about that for being aware of the obvious?

Just eat.

True story.

Chip: Isnt it interesting how the perception of time changes as age progresses?

Me: Just enjoy your yogurt, Chip.

Clean up in Aisle 12.

Chip: people think of death as non-being, I think they are quite wrong, and it is philosophically unsound to think so. death as end is a modern conception

Me: chip, you're ranting. and I think its philosophically unsound to think that I've understood anything.

Chip: sorry. thank you

Me: it's okay...you just went off into la la land

Chip: reign me back in please. is it obvious that I really care about this subject?

Me: yes, and in that rant, i almost lost you. come back to earth, dear. The alcohol is down here.

Chip: hahahah, I didn't even go off, I just scratched the surface

Me: oh god. i don't know if i want to see that...i might have to find the pieces to my brain as it explodes.

Try to find the meaning of this.

Chip: but, as the ground of being, it must predicate non-being

it has to include non-being

what does it mean for something not to be?

is there really such a thing?

me: I just read that. And I just went cross-eyed.
Gotta go find a horse to kick me hard. Be right back.

What does Lou think?

We have a cat, Louis. Tuxedo cat. Cool as hell. He likes to sit next to me as I am on the computer. Today, I'm in bed, and he's curled up next to me as I talk to Chip in GTalk.

Chip: not only is the world vibration though, these traditions maintain that sound is a living divine presence. so, it's used in ritual to link the individual with the absolute. This is the gist of what I'm looking into. Hopefully, it sounds nuts

me: Louis just farted

Sick and sicker

I've been sick for about a week now. Unfortunately, with being sick, comes congestion. Chip has made me some delicious soup, which due to severe congestion, I cannot smell anything, and with smell, goes taste. So, I take the day off from work, and Chip goes into his work. We chat online during the day. He's telling me of some of the books and ideas he's interested in using for his dissertation. The conversation goes something like this:

Chip: chanting in india was used to link up with that vibratory power and create order.

harmony, like music. why do notes played simultaneously create a harmony?

Me: guess what?!?!
i tasted something.
I can finally eat and enjoy it.
Huh?