Quick Don update

As Becca has mentioned, I have been sick with a respiratory/sinus infection since last Tuesday - and there have been days in the last week where it hasn't been clear which of us has been sicker. I got a prescription for antibiotics today which I hope speeds my recovery, since I seem to be sicker today than yesterday. 

I have been very curious about using meditation on sending/taking (Tonglen) in helping us cope. Tonglen provides a way to be very intimate with the feeling that are arising and to see them as part of human condition (by expanding our scope to include all those suffering in ways similar to ourselves) and to send ourselves and our brothers and sisters love and wishes for healing. Today I went and found a guided tonglen meditation by Tara Brach that Becca and I originally heard in person at Tara's October retreat in Baltimore. It was very powerful for me when I practiced with it early this morning (I was up long before Becca today). You can find it here, if you'd like to experience it yourself.

This evening begins the festival of Passover, which remembers the story of how the early Jews freed themselves from slavery in Egypt, and eventually found freedom in a new land of their own. May we all remember the ways in which we and our ancestors have experienced being stuck in narrow places (the Hebrew word for Egypt, mizrayim, means "narrow place"), may we remember those who are suffering today in slavery of body and/or mind, and may we all have the opportunity in our lives to touch true freedom.