Adhiratha's Blog
note abbreviation: NMW = Nana Mom Wanda
add more of story from 04 July 2009
Picnick and watching games of pictionary etc. at July forth celebration outside of Aspiration Ground in Jamaica Hills NY
After eating and long chats, Some one asks if mom is tired and she says yes, so others think she may want to go back to her residence at skilled nursing facility amd she agerees. I thought to myself maybe she is just saying what she thinks is expected - but go along with the request to head back - the event is almost over any way.
Then we get back to her building and floor and she says " why did you make me leave and come back here". I say but you said you wanted to come back. and her response is : "why did you listen to me, you know when I' m lying" Hmmmm
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25 August 2007 was Self-Transcendence 26 mile marathon at Rockland State Park.
I was hoping to finish under the 7 hour cut off since my running hadn't been great the last month - , In training I had done one 19 mile run in 5 hours, so that seemed to be quite possible to finish. Then my next goal was to come a close as possible to doing better than my previous worst time for the Marathon which was few years a go on the same course ( 5 hrs and 15 minutes).
Well, I did do WORSE thant my previous Worst time. So you could say I broke my worst time record :-> on the good side I know have a worse worst time to do better than in future year.
And a friend pointed out - the 5 hrs and 51 minute finishing time is my best time for my current age. :-)
finish photo proof is here:
http://www.srichinmoyraces.org/gallery/usa/2009marathon/finisher_portrai...
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Walking behind Nanna Mom Wanda, pushing the wheel chair she wants to know if I am still there and then since I am, she wants to know "how are you doing?"
Later, sitting together as she drinks her ensure nutrition "shake" in the Garden of the skilled nursing facility where NMW resides, she abruptly asks me what I am doing. I start to answer what I was thinking about a few minutes ago and she gives me look as if she doesn't believe me. I decide to tell her the actual truth from the very moment she was asking. I say I was trying to invoke light again where I imagine light in the center of my chest or heart. NMW says "why imagine it - just do it". I say yes it is becoming more and more easy to do that lately, but it started with imagination. Now I say I can sometimes feel the light growing to about a foot around my head as comes from the heart center or about the same distance around my whole body sometimes. But I can't seem to make it grow much more, I add that feeling the light it is easier if I have already been meditating for awhile - but when I go outside it can go away too quickly. It is so hard to maintain the awareness as I begin to do or think of something else. NMW says "yes, it is like that". We talk some about obtaining, maintaining and spreading light.
We also discuss that when I was young and having pains in my stomach once she taught me deep breathing, which she had learned to control pain when she was carrying some of her nine children. Because of this early knowledge I had found the beginning breathing exercises in some yoga or meditation classes quite natural. She agrees.
Later as we wait for the elevator to go back upstairs, I sense that she will not be real happy since I plan to leave pretty quickly after we get to her floor and dining room. She express her displeasure when I say I am leaving. I meniton why I am leaving, some other things I need to do and inquire what is wrong. She says: "I just lost the light" while raising her eyebrow.
-2009-Aug-30
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NMW says to another resident while we atre leaving her floor of the skilled nursing facility for an hour " we are going for pizza". Adhiratha wonders wher this idea comes from, as previously no mention of Pizza had been made and they were planning to go to Panarama cafe where Piza is not on menu.
But Pizza shows up unexpedly at Panaroma Carfe as special for the day.
Adhiratha questions NMW "how did you know we were going to have Pizza today? we never had Pizza here before.."
NMW: "because we haven't had Pizza in awhile"
OK?
-Hmmmmmmm
-2009 Aug 31
George arives last week after being out of country not seeing NMW for almot a year and half. When Nana mom wanda first saw George from across the room, we asked who it was. NMW said: well, it is either George or some one wearing a mask that looks like him. ;-) We all laughed. Then later she said with a smile that she had no idea what she was going to say until she said it.
will Attach photo of George, Nanna-Mom-Wanda and Mark chatting and laughing together later on friday at mid day 17 Sep 2009
