I am a 21st century brontosaurus

2-14-21

10:46 am Sunday

We have a ton of snow. I have not measured, but looks like about 15 inches.

It is still snowing.  Viggo and I will go out and take care of the animals shortly.

I have not seen this much snow in the PNW ever, and I have lived here for almost 30 years.

I have been working more on the M.I.G.H.T Project.  It is a good project.

My back is doing a little better. I found a back massager at my mother-in-law’s house as we were helping

to organize it.

I have been using it frequently.  I am finding my back is full of cords that are sore.

These sinews seem to have gotten so tight that I seem to be strangled by them.

I am doing better, but these tendrils I have been tending for 30 plus years.

I have grown them, strengthened them and they have helped me battle through

the challenges I perceived to be urgent and threatening.  I have held ready with the

rigidity of a ramrod and I have survived my battles and perhaps persevered.

Now these sinews that buttressed me I want to ask kindly to leave.  I am being

Squeezed, strangled, crushed  by that which I believe saved me.

It is very funny stuff.

What I really want to say is that my back seems to have a memory, a conscience.

As my back gets pummeled by the massager I feel what seems like fear or anxiety seeded in these sinews. These muscles, tissues, nerves seem to hold my fearful soul, my consciousness in their fibers.  I find it baffling that I may not exist in my head but in my back. That I am a 21st century brontosaurus with my second brain in my back.  I find it encouraging that by rubbing on my back it can have such a dramatic positive effect on my whole essence.  I seem to be affected by any number of influences that it leads me to question is there really a “me” or just a consciousness that is so intrinsically connected to its surroundings that “I” is merely a thin slick of rainbow swirling recognition on an impenetrable bubble of being connected to an infinite number of bubbles with their rainbow shimmering pulsing and shimmering.

I want to appreciate all of this, but it is difficult.  I am going to go out with Viggo and feed and water some cold and hungry animals.

Love you Shuna, thank you for the support, spring is coming.

I am thankful for this opportunity.