The Sun

I was writing an email to my friend, and it just sounds like maybe you all would like to read about, a funny blog post, about my day. Well, I woke up around 7:30, hit the snooze button until 8:00. I went to the kitchen to make tea or something, and I ran into my roommate Robby-bob, and he asked me if we could do some yoga. I said sure! So I got the yoga mats (I have two) and brought them to the common room at the vegetarian cooperative where I live. We did a few "om's" and the sun salutation mantra I learned in yoga class a month ago at the Living Yoga Center in Champaign.

It always feels so nice to do yoga in the morning, I always feel great in general. I feel that yoga helps make me a more compassionate human being, providing me with energy I didn't know I had, and just overall able to live my life fully and accept the challenges I face everyday. but I feel like I don't have enough time to do it, and get enough sleep and get good grades and be a healthy well-balanced human being! anyway, I was facing towards the sun, observing how the sun's rays shine in the morning through the red maple trees, on a cool autumn dawn. I felt a strong appreciation for the sun, feeling a oneness with nature, and how the sun's rays fuel life on Earth. IT makes sense too--the sun's rays are captured by plants, which convert it t a usable form by other life forms, which obtain their energy from that. Even if you eat meat, the animals where your meat comes from ate plants (unless it was a tertiary consumer), which comes ultimately from the sun. All of our substance comes from the sun originally. No wonder why so many indigenous cultures worshipped the sun. If there was no sun, life wouldn't exist on Earth! IF the Earth was a little bit closer or a little far away, life wouldn't be able to exist the way that it does! It's pretty amazing how big and great and totally beyond us the sun is.

I have come to all the aforementioned conclusions before; this was not the first time I experienced this. I just thought I would let whoever happens to be reading this know a little more of where I'm coming from.

I experienced one of the most intense experiences of my whole life when I was at Camp Michigania by myself for two weeks, in the middle of winter. No city lights, no car, no internet in the place I was staying, no humans, no nothing. Just me, the cold, and the woods. The sun set SOOOOO EARLY, up north Michigan, right? i didn't have a clock, and I tried to get my body to swing with the natural rhythms of the sun. I would wake up before the sun would rise, just praying that the sun would rise that morning, because every night was so dark. I don't think people get the opportunities I have been presented in my life. It really made me realize a lot about life, and put things in perspective. I can share more if people are interested.
Peace and love!