Needles counted, help, class taught, and partly fine

Saw Misha and counted the needles in my head: 22. Got some weird pictures.

Asked Tong to pick up prescription (brain helper), which I ran out of over the weekend. He kindly did so and left it in my mailbox where I retrieved it later. Trish is picking me up some corn silk (for tea) from Rainbow. I lost what I had (twice actually) and Misha says I should have it every day. And Dhammagita did some breath work with me this morning which increased my lung capacity, awesome. She also brings me delightful things, like a rubber baby's head that has a faint but unmistakable mohawk.  

I taught a lunchtime stress reduction/ meditation class today. It went very well, It's at a groovy shared workspace type place on 2nd street. However, it is fucking crazy that I am teaching this class, well, at this time - which now that i think of it is probably a low point say in the last 7 or 8 months, if not longer! Fact is, I'm a little bit stupid, is the shorthand. Yes. Things you wouldn't have noticed as taxing in any way, like making a decision of any kind, reaching across the bed for something just out of reach, navigating anywhere, a flight of stairs, planning anything, driving, talking...blogging I can do lying down. But after many hours of lying down, I can have fairly normal energy for an hour or two.

Have an idea for an art project. A Wheel of Fortune with a symbol for each side effect (they seem to do something of a rotation) and remedy. Or maybe a clock with many hands. Inside of a body. Or brain. 

Listening to Tibetan monks with their super low voices chant healing verses (Sacred Healing Chants of Tibet), I'm really enjoying it.

I feel like crap on one level, and it is challenging responding to new limitations (and not knowing if I will have them for a few weeks, or many months.)  There's also some part of me that is fine, not wrecked at all. Even though right now I am very sleepy and my body aches, I feel in touch with it. Time to sleep. 

"Now is the season to know that everything you do is sacred."

Hafiz