Not Taking a Plunge

I was supposed to be somewhere today that I had wanted to be for months, if not longer: a mother's retreat with Karen Maezen Miller. But healing didn't happen fast enough, though healing I've been doing. And so I have marked today with a walking meditation in the beautiful, crisp, fall morning, stopping and interrupting my meditation to talk to all the neighbors who were similarly enjoying the morning. Ma and Gong are here visiting with the kids, going to kung fu and to lunch, which means great fun for them, a bit of a rest for me. Not a bad day to spend the day, even if it isn't at all what I had planned. But I'm practicing being okay with that and with everything else.