2024-04-04 | Day 5/Part 1 | Integrated Intensive | Forms and Roles as Practice | Flint Sparks

00:00:27 - Dharma Talk 00:20:46 - Poem - Another theory of Time 00:28:30 - Reflections Another Theory of Time - Marie Howe So, I tell my daughter we are eating dinner, reading through the book of stories I'm worried about Jason. If I seem distracted, that's what's on my mind. And she says, Take it out of your mind, then dips and eats a dumpling, and says, But don't take out Jason. And this morning at the deli I say, I'm grumpy because it's the first day of school, and I'm thinking of so many things. and she says, Take them out, and I say, How do I do that? and she says, Think about Now. I bite into my egg and cheese on a sesame bagel, and it is good. It is. Although it does bother me how she always wants to sit at the tiny deli counter so near the garbage bins eating meatballs for breakfast. Then she ways, I can't remember the future or the past. The local high school girls order iced coffee and whole wheat bagels with nothing on them. My girl eats her meatballs, and I stare past the cutouts of ham and turkey taped to the window and think about the moment I want so much to leave how small it is sometimes, this Now how constricting, me with my bad teeth and ageing elbows. as person after person tosses their trash inches behind my back before walking out the open door.