Today is gloomy, in preparation for the rain we're expected to have by tomorrow. We need more rain, so I'm not worried. I went to my Buddhist temple yesterday after missing two Sundays, and it was like coming home. Anam Thubten's talks are so useful and tender. His compassion is foremost, and every talk seems to knit right into all the others in this ever expanding web of heart felt understanding. It makes me happy to be on this path, to see myself as a part of something larger, something better, with capacities I didn't know I had before. I love myself in a way I couldn't before. What a gift!
This President's Weekend has been more meaningful for me as the film "Lincoln" and the book "Team of Rivals" has highlighted the man and the presidency in a way I'd not thought of before. I feel both the book and movie gave me a role model and a kind of person who can actually do some good in that office. I hope Obama will turn out to have similar qualities and compassion. I think it wouldn't hurt to reexamine Washington as well, who was much more interesting that our history classes would have it, and a model for not grasping at power. Who would play him in the movie? Daniel Day Lewis again? No, wrong physical type. Perhaps Kenneth Branaugh. No, too short. It's all about the eyes. Washington had an equinimity about him. A calmness and direct gaze. Oh, well, enough casting for now.
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