I made a list today oh boy!
I hear a Beatles song coming on...wasn't it 'I heard the news today' from A Day in the Life? Yes, I looked that one up just yesterday. Something about holes in the road in Blackburn, Lancashire and the Albert Hall. Amazing what you learn about those old songs. I'm no happier and a bit wiser for knowing the connection between Blackburn and the Albert Hall. It's interesting to know what the source of my youthful singing and humming pleasure was. A newspaper article about holes in the road and how much material it would take to fill them, enough to fill the Albert Hall.
Anyway. I made a list today and worked not so much through it as around, up and down it, now it's a scribbled out mess. I resort to making lists as a last resort. I find lists basically oppressive but necessary just in order to remember what needs to be done. When there is a lot to be done. Like today. Already I see how disjointed my thinking has become as I write. Lists do it to you. There is help at hand though. Here's how to stop making lists and get a life.
Go ahead take a look, there is life after lists. A more fun loving one.
For your information I'll be away from the monastery for a couple of weeks from Wednesday. First stop Telford Buddhist Priory and then onwards to our temple in the Black Forest in Germany. Posting might become irregular, or they might not.
