After reading many posts this morning including
some of my own I want to say how lucky I am to have
such kinds of problems and to have a yoga practice at
all. Last night while I was out at a meeting for two
or three hours my apartment was robbed and I lost
mostly all of my valuable items - family heirlooms,
valuable jewelry, cd player, cameras, and my imac computer
which I use to communicate with all of you, passports,
birth certificate, important papers - titles, deeds, my
parents will etc. I cannot imagine, nor do I want to
imagine a life filled with the kinds of problems that
would lead a person to break down window bars,
violently force their way into someone's home, plunder and
pillage through drawers, closets, desk, and take things
that have deep personal significance and leave the
place trashed just to get a few hundred dollars on the
street. These are real problems and I only hope that
whoever did this gets caught and can make this right
someday. I am deeply saddened by this loss but I am
grateful that my cats were unharmed (except for looking
like the chimmney sweeps in Mary Poppins - they must
have hid in the fireplace behind the logs -)and I am
unharmed physically. The stuff can be replaced for the
most part. I am writing this because it is easy to
forget how good my problems are. I have many friends and
a good life and a lot less stuff now to worry
about. Don't get me wrong, I am furious and outraged by
this event. I don't know what the moral to this story
is yet. I had a strong impulse to write this message
when I realized that last night before I went out and
got robbed, my biggest problem was whether I should
go fully raw-foodist now or ease into it more slowly
as some suggest; which raw food cookbook I should
buy; whether I should do the primary or second series
the next morning and when would I be able to grab my
heels in kapotasana and what a happy day that will be;
I was thinking that I would like to learn more
sanskrit puja's and when will my new practice rug
arrive... What a completely lovely world I live in compared
to the one where you have to break into people's
houses and steal all of their beautiful things with out
concern for how much they will be hurt. That's
all.<br><br>Trinka