Filling my slurpee cup

I woke up this morning from a dream in which someone brought me a large slurpee cup that seemed full to overflowing---but when I took it, I realized that it was mostly froth. As the froth dissolved, I saw that there were only two little sips left at the bottom. I was really mad and sad about it, and I went back to the vendor to complain.

When I woke up, I felt really sad. But I quickly thought about what it meant: at first, it looked like my cup was running over, but when I looked closer, it was pretty dry.

Could this be an image for the "all work and little or no play" life that I tend to fall into?

Hmmmmm...

And who, exactly, holds that cup? Whose efforts fill the cup?

Why, that would be me.

If I am going to have more joy and more fun, I better get crackin'.

Useful Tools to Find Clarity

http://showingup.livejournal.com/77993.html?mode=reply

From my wise friend showingup, described as:

"Techniques anyone - of any faith or none - can use as is or in tweaked form to help get clarity"

Craft Post 6: "Conservative" and "Orthodox"

In this Craft discussion, I think I am using words in ways that only gesture at the meanings I intend.

"Conservative" and "orthodox" as descriptors for some of my colleagues are just not right. "Liberal" isn't the right label I'd select for myself in this context, either.

Let me try again, with more focus.
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Craft Post 7: Braided Stream

Expanded and reposted as an entry from a comment below.

The most powerful group I have ever been part of, until the Fires of Venus Keepers group, was my core coven of many years, Braided Stream. This group was composed of the same small group of people who remained bonded over 6+ years, with the occasional addition of a very few who came, stayed a for a little bit and moved on to other groups.

The core of Braided Stream was the single most united, powerful and courageous group of *Magicians I have ever encountered. We grew a group mind the likes of which I have never seen anywhere else, though I wonder if FoV may offer something exquisitely similar soon...

Our nickname was "The Bunny Borg": tender, tremendously loving and fiercely interwoven at the level of bodymind.
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Wakefulness is found in pleasure and pain

In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal – quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is. If our experience is that sometimes we have some kind of perspective and sometimes we have none, then that’s our experience. If sometimes we can approach what scares us, and sometimes we absolutely can’t, then that’s our experience. “This very moment is the perfect teacher, and it’s always with us,” is really a most profound instruction. Just seeing what’s going on – that’s the teaching right there. We can be with what’s happening and not dissociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary every-day lives.

Pema Chodron