ntr...thanks for the tip about mandalas. Definitely something I'll check out, as I've herad good things about them before. Gotta get running to class, though .

Capp, sorry to hear your sick. To keep in the spiritual vibe of the thread, though, I find sickness can be hugely transformative. The most important decision of my academic career came after I was recovering from a nasty illness (a real bad one...may have even been Norwalk virus). And it was just because I was looking at the river that ran by campus, and was in an altered frame of mind. Hard to explain.

lol, seems like everything has meaning when we think about it. Anyway, enjoy your spiritual musings while you recover.