A more spacious view

I've dedicated one day a month to a retreat aimed at my spiritual growth. It's something I've never done before, but no matter what your beliefs are, it's a wonderful thing to do for yourself. To give yourself that space. I didn't decide to do it to change my life, I decided to do it to devote time to spirituality. But yet it's changing my life anyway. Taking the broader view I'm engaged in writing my aunt's memoirs for her, in the process learning so much about boston, myself, and the grandmother I never knew.

Yesterday at a retreat (the perfect thing to combat my usual sunday night blues), my meditation teacher asked us to think about whether we are:

a person with awareness

or

awareness that contains a person. 

It's a lovely question to ponder until the next retreat.