OK, today was brain drain day It is a day I can not completely wake up. It is also the kind of day where the mind will not stop,and the body has no get up and go. Then 20 minutes later the body wants to go but the mind is back half asleep. I spent some time on the back porch with eyes closed soaking up nature I even had a robin on the railing talking to me. I tried to hard to understand so I could not understand. I decxided to go for a drive to clear everything. I probably should not have. 1st stop for gas. Ok. Take a drive out to Woodcock Lake. Look for some fresh scenery. None at the dam. None at the upper boat ramp. None at the causeway. So I will drive over to Lake Tamarack. Still no luck in clearing the head or waking the body. Return home, cook dinner, eat, wash dishes, watch some tv. 2 hours later, start laundry, put Socks outside for a bit. Ashley calls me to the kitchen... she asks.. did I put gas in the truck? ..... ayup... some how I forgot to replace the gas cap..... I should not have gone for the drive. Since my mind is clouded I have no poem of my own what I am posting is not necessarily poetry but a way of being to clear the mind I got cought on the sky

..Know your mind as the sky

Allow everything to pass on through

The clouds, the lightening, the wind

All of it, even the blue itself

See and hear what ever arises.

But do not grasp at anything

Do not even get cought on the sky

..

Zen Master

Ji Aoi Isshi