Yesterday I participated in the birthday celebrations for Roy, John’s father in law, who had crossed the 75 year threshold two days earlier. There were twenty eight of us, family, friends and the man himself. After a nice taco type serving, we all got together for the game. ‘This is going to be a long game’, I said to Roy who sat beside me. ‘That’s good’, was his reply and he was right. It was most enjoyable and the best one that I have been a part of over these now ten years and counting.

Walking earlier that day to my Palliser friends, I got quite cold taking some picture along the way of the hoarfrost, all at close to minus 30dC. Fortunately, Thomas was back and gave me a ride home. When I got back from Roy’s birthday celebration it was about five pm, too late for a snooze, so I went to bed early at around eleven pm.

On Saturday I met up John and Annie for her skating lessons and also went along to the swimming lessons for about half an hour, before returning home. Annie does quite well in physical activities and also enjoys them, which is important.

John was telling me about parents who get so zealous about such activities for their children that they go three or four times a week. Ina, my former spouse, and I were always more relaxed about these things and so are John and Tammy. Let children explore and experience a variety of possibilities before they have to specialise later on in life, is my motto.

At about one pm Ada and I met at Indigo, where I handed her the Christmas card that we all signed, with Thomas and Gabriella, meeting Howard and Rea on their stop over. Better late than never, is what I think. Ada and I had a good chat about politics, Olympics and some common interests. I promised and did send her some links to the Olympics websites as I finally got her email address that keeps changing.

I bought a birthday card for Roy and a Globe for myself to read over the weekend. At night I watched some of the Olympic competitions on CBC, which has excellent coverage. Tomorrow the temperature is coming up from the minus twenty towards the more seasonal of around zero. I’m looking forward to that!

I had a midsleep course correction last night in that I wake up during the night with memories about my going for many early morning swims with my sister Els who came along most of the time. These swims were at seven am in open water of a make shift municipal pool. The water temperatures went as low as eleven dC, thirteen was common and any thing above seventeen was warm, but seldom. We were a hardy pair, as we persisted for many weeks at this.

As I recalled, while half asleep, some of the details going back and forth. From this, the notion arose ‘What was it that made me do this?’, because I did go by myself several times when it was really cold. I was at the end of my first year in junior high school, when I was kind of steeling myself in this fashion. I recall the sense of committed dedication to this activity of not skipping a single time, although I only went on school days I think, which included Saturday.

Recalling this then last night, with this question about my motivation, the idea arose that this activity related to my life overall as a still young person. The notion was one of ‘having an intention’ about this disciplined swim activity. It was an action done with an underlying intention, was the feeling awareness that surfaced as I so recollected my activities from back then being thirteen years of age.

The second notion that came along with the first was that ‘intention relates to the course of one’s life‘. These two notions then slowly merged into to complete in the thought insight: ‘Life intention and life course are connected‘. With the completion of that thought I went back to sleep, but I always keep repeating these ‘sleep ideas’ to myself. This results in my being not all that rested when I wake up.

Life intention and life course are connected; this is the first connection.

While I was on my coffee break - 9:45am - I retrieved an second sleep idea that jelled later on during my nightly hypnogogic adventure: ‘This is the first connection.’, this in reference to the first idea of ‘Life intent and the course of life are connected’. These two ideas I recollected on waking up this morning and repeated them to myself as was coming to full alertness.

Then, while having a coffee as I waited for the cereal to cook, I wondered about the second idea of ‘This is the first connection’. This was not just a thought, but it was an imperative notion in the manner of ‘Don’t you forget it!’ So, what was this almost commanding assertive realisation?

As I searched, an association surfaced relating to my affirmation of last week about ‘bringing connectedness to conscious awareness’. Then this must be the place to start with that process I thought. The first such connection to be made conscious, is the one of ‘the connection between one’s life intent and life course. In other words the happenings in your/ my life relate to the intent of your/ my life.

And where does this intent come from, one may ask! Well, that depends on your own belief system, which may teach that it relates to a previously lived life or to God’s will and intent. Either way, life intent and life course are connected, and we can become aware of this intent by examining the course of our life.

This concludes my recollections and their interpretation for now, but I realise that with this point of purchase - fulcrum? - there is much searching and un-covering to be done. This may actually become quite an interesting process! It will have to wait for later.
<10:28am the sun is coming through right now and with edit and lunch at 11:20am~