All the (Chinese) elements

I do my best thinking in and near water and surrounded by/held up by earth. When I can, I like to take a few minutes in the morning and float in the tub in just a little bit of water, so I can absorb and think. All kinds of insights emerge here, and there's something about the soothing nature of the water that eases all my stresses and allows my heart and mind to blossom.

I can't reflect properly unless I am calm.

Maybe that's why I put such a high premium on calming people, things and spaces.

Today's insights: (thinking guided by the the Chinese Element System)

I am doing really well with earth, I'm starting to do better with metal (slowly grasping how to set good, loving boundaries, oh so slowly...) and I am very delighted with air. Love the minds of those around me and all they have to offer.

I'm still pretty confused about fire, and I don't yet get wood at all.

I've been supporting and witnessing for two close friends who have much, much fire and noticing, again, how fire confuses me and sets me off my game a little bit. I understand it and love it as sheer raw movement, as dance, and as pulling through the divinity of the universe. Those things I know and love.

As communication, as passion, as frustration and as anger, it still confuses me. It's like my brain stops and starts, but works in fits, sputtering around and trying to get its bearings.

I still have work to do around this.

I guess that's OK.

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Apple

Last night Michael had me watch the last 10 minutes of the Apple talk.

Siri.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html

Oh my gods. Want, want, want...

I could talk to my cell...

Also, rest in peace, Steve Jobs.

another metaphor

I've started giving blood again because of the blood shortage in our area. Now blood donation orgs are actually calling people to come in and donate again if they've done it once before, so I am being prodded to think about it regularly. It seems, strangely, like a good metaphor for other parts of my experience.

I have O+ blood, and a quick look at Wikipedia says "...a group O individual can receive blood only from a group O individual, but can donate blood to individuals of any ABO blood group (i.e., A, B, O or AB)".

That seems a lot like me. Sometimes I think I can give affection and love to anyone, but I can only accept it back from a very narrowly defined group. Huh.