Today was busy.. jam packed with meetings from 8-6. It felt good being back in the office after being overseas last week.. Not much to report for the work day.. I did manage to make it home in time for Diane’s 6PM yoga class. The time change meant that it was still bright sunshine during the class.. You can feel spring !. In the middle of the class we heard Chai barking her head off. Suddenly someone in the class yelled “Fox !”.. We all jumped to the window in time to see a beautiful fox run up the hill behind our house.. He/she stood up there looking down at us and Chai.. Maybe there’s a den up there.. Chai’s always barking in that direction..
We came in from Yoga to find several kids there.. Jeff D and his new band. (Pucket and two new nice kids…they sound awesome) Caroline was there too. She hadn’t seen Satori the puppy… This puppy is like a friend magnet.. so many folks have come by to meet her.. Things are never quiet when the puupy’s ‘s awake. .. Gabe is like her litter mate…
She really is a great ray of life in our house..
After dinner , we helped Gabe with his homework, then settled down to watch part 10 of the 9 week online webcast of Echkhardt Tolle and Oprah Winfrey discussing Tolle’s book ‘A new Earth’. I’m interested in the material from the book.. I’m also interested in the phenomenon around the book and this webcast event. By way of Oprah’s media savy and draw, there are more than 800,000 folks watching this webcast live.. and more than 1.4 million folks downloading it. The thing that makes this interesting as compared to a standard multicast event like, say, CNN.. is the interactivity.. Tolle takes video and audio phone calls from Skype and emails fro all over the world during these talks. I’m thinking it must be the single biggest interactive media event ever held.. I’m so interested in how mass media can influence and participate in the shaping our culture. This is a very cool experiment just on that plane.. Wat’s even cooler is that it’s being done on a book about the evolution of consciousness.
I must confess that I attempted to start blogging about 3/4 the way through the broadcast tonight.. just as Tolle was talking about our mass compulsion to multitask.. How we’re always trying to get to the next thing.. rather than being here now (sound like Ram Das) .. I stopped and listend to teh rest of the broadcast.. then sat down to write.. Maybe I can be trained 🙂
OK.. I’m still jetlagged.. I’m going to go be in the sleep moment… Gnite all. Gnite Sam
-me