Cool that you have a good friend in Switzerland and that you had a really long chat with her last night! ((((((((ss)))))))))) Sorry about the stress with having to unexpectedly rush to drive your son to school this morning. Glad you were able to restore some calm by re-counting your dream!

I really hope the music inside your head stops too ((((((((((lavie)))))))))))) Isn't it so true that what is good and useful is harder than hard to do? Listening to the Pema Chodron CD she emphasizes that EVERYONE struggles with this (even her!). She says that it's our natural tendency to try to escape unpleasant feelings, but that this only causes us to dig an even deeper hole for ourselves. What we need to do is learn how to turn toward difficult emotions, instead of turning away from them. But she fully acknowledges how hard it is to do this!!