Moon Day News Number 200
Well!
We've made it this far. The 200th edition of the Moon Day News!
In this era when YouTube videos can get millions of hits, individuals can amass billions in personal wealth, and social media companies count their customers in the billions, two hundred doesn't sound like much. But when I think about it, there have been two hundred times where I've thought to myself, "What on earth am I going to write about this time!?". I always think that I won't be able to come up with anything to say, and yet something always comes along.
It has been great practice for me to sit down and write every two weeks. It's been a great way for me to crystallise what I think about many different subjects and, usually, their relationship to yoga. Most of all, it's been a great way to connect with you all; to share my thoughts, feelings, doubts, emotions and frustrations and to hear back from so many of you that you empathise, that you have had similar experiences and that you sometimes even gain comfort, strength or, dare I say, some small amount of inspiration to keep practising from reading these blog posts.
Seven and a half years (400 weeks) is a long time to do anything. Most of us, with the exception of our jobs, don't apply ourselves to one thing for that length of time (me included). It ties in with what I was saying last time though, that actually just to keep on practising, regardless of the achievements along the way, is the hardest thing to do.
I noticed this milestone of two hundred moon day news(s) coming months ago (when I reached the one-hundred-and-eighties) and thought to myself that I should maybe trumpet the fact that I've reached two hundred, make a bit of a song and dance about it, but then, today, our daughter Molly was vomiting, our other daughter was home from school with green snot coming out of her, it was all-hands-on-deck, and I almost forgot to write this at all.
But maybe that's something of a metaphor in itself for yoga practice. All around us can be chaos, everything changing, nothing predictable, and yet we keep practising, we keep following the same path. Constant forward motion allows us to wade through all the small frustrations that life throws our way, and maybe even some of the big ones too.
This moon day news has become a practice for me and, like any practice, sometimes it feels as if you've done well and other times you've just gotten it done. So, almost 9 pm and there it is. Moon Day News 200!
Must do better next time x