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Crossed my Birthday off on Monday. Turned 71.
I pictured people in olden times setting off into their day to tend to crops, animals or in search of food. Nowadays, I set off to tend to systems and navigate rules.
Yesterday I called back to my new medicare advantage plan. My enrollment at the medicare.gov site had never reached them and I was calling in to learn what they'd learned. Turns out, there was a glitch that day and 3 new enrollees hadn't been handed off to them. Not only helped myself, but 2 other people, too!
Then, I stood up, called it a day, and enjoyed a walk.
While walking, I thought about why it felt so right, when there are other things I want to get off my back. And I landed on a scene from Zen and the Art of Archery. Herrigel makes a big mistake and tries to fake the Zen state. His archery master detects it and breaks off instruction and bans him. Herrigel begs his way back in.
Then a while later Herrigel shoots an arrow like he'd shot it many times before. He thought. But his master stood bowed, said something like "very good" and broke off the instruction for the day.
Maybe that was it. Before I fully knew my reference, I'd "broken off" from work for the day.
Felt right.
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