{"id":375,"date":"2012-03-04T13:47:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2012-03-04T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T21:47:32","slug":"march-is-bustin-out-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"March is Bustin’ Out All Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

I checked in with the powers-that-be, and was able to connect with one \u201cNeo-Demetria,\u201d who told me she was an assistant to the archangel in charge of Springtime; in turn, she  checked the map and schedule and said, \u201cA-yup, in central Texas Spring started two weeks and four days early, rounding off the hours and minutes, and what you have been noticing on your bike ride around the southeast campus of Sun City Texas (in Georgetown, north of Austin) is that March, not June, is bustin\u2019 out all over<\/a> (to pull a verse from the song in the 1949 Broadway musical, Oklahoma). Ain\u2019t it grand! Cardinals are doing their little wheep, tweet tweet tweet call; crepe myrtle is puttin\u2019 out them Tincture-of-Benzoin-sweet fragrances, dandelion weeds are comin\u2019 up faster than flowers, a perfectly cooling southern gulf breeze is comin\u2019 up through the Texas hill country, and it\u2019s glorious. <\/p>\n

Some trees are in full puffy white blooms and the green leaves are comin\u2019 in right behind\u2014indeed, a few of those white blossom-lets are already peeling away\u2014it all goes through its blossom cycle within days. Other trees look so dead, but I suspect we\u2019ll start to see bumps, then buds, then flower-leaves. So it\u2019s an adventure. <\/p>\n

Life is luscious. Rehearsing for the Spring Concert, square and round dancing, last night went ballroom dancing with my angel-sweetie-wife. It occurred to me that what if Allee is better than Ginger Rogers because she follows me without rehearsal! Later, as we snuggled in our nestule and flossed our teeth, we read together from Philip Goldberg\u2019s recent book, American Yoga<\/a>. Great book. <\/p>\n

New insights inflame my epiphany-organ, wherever that is: Most recently, what I\u2019m about in part is pioneering the opening of the preconscious mind, which is, like, a hundred or a thousand times more vast than the ordinary conscious mind. It\u2019s like discovering that all kinds of other products can be made from certain plants\u2014first distillation: sugar; second distillation after fermentation: rum; third distillation: molasses. Residue: good fertilizer… same with petroleum or other substances. Apply that to mind: There\u2019s a lot more richness there that we can use in our social, aesthetic, political, and other activities to make our world a better place. (Hint: Psychodramatic methods open this realm better than most other methods!) <\/p>\n

Many other projects gradually forming: A lecture in early June on the history of psychotherapy, updated, and with photos. Still revising and improving The Art of Play\u2014discovering redundancies, parts I need to take out and post on the accompanying website. Preparing a bit for the workshop at the British Psychodrama Conference<\/a> in the Cotswolds region south-west of London, etc. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile certain acquaintances aren\u2019t doing so well, which shouldn\u2019t surprise us (but it does, a little)\u2014people with bad diagnoses, entering or exiting from chemotherapy, etc. Other friends or relatives moving closer to their kids. We\u2019re enjoying what time we have. Thought I\u2019d tell the world\u2014not that most are interested, but what the heck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I checked in with the powers-that-be, and was able to connect with one \u201cNeo-Demetria,\u201d who told me she was an assistant to the archangel in charge of Springtime; in turn, she  checked the map and schedule and said, \u201cA-yup, in central Texas Spring started two weeks and four days early, rounding off the hours and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}