Day 34 - Laker Day

The title is fitting for 2 reasons, it was like a lake out there today and the Lakers just took a 2 - 0 lead over the Jazz in the first round of the playoffs.  Today very small waves prevailed, but I was able to catch a lot of them.  The waves were about knee to waist high, but the air was calm and hot again, so the conditions were actually pretty good for a small high tide morning.  The calmness of the morning and warmth in the air besot reality this morning for the 30 minutes we were surfing.  There was no work, no stress, no thinking about the future or any other overemphasized facet of life, I was just present to the calmness of the morning.  I wished that I had arrived earlier to my therapy session in hindsight.  Jay and I had the discussion regarding the size of the waves and our mutual agreement that just getting in the water has the effect of keeping surfing in the foreground of the mind.  It is a really good feeling to be on point when the waves do return and this is how it is accomplished; consistently maintaining the feel of surfing in the foreground of thought.  Getting out there even when it is small and doing whatever it takes to catch a few waves replenishes the water on the brain and that is what we did.  This morning, I rode my long board again, which was the correct call.  I caught a lot of waves in a short period of time and on a number of them I pretended to be setting up for big moves, but in reality I was just surfing the waves in my mind as the 10 footer had no intentions of complying with my imagination.  I'm looking forward to tomorrow - to bed for now.