When I got home to Salinas from teaching Zen in San Francisco the other night, my room was very cold. My community members had gone to bed without turning on any heat. I had a bit of work I wanted to get done before going to bed myself, and was uncomfortable, and a little grouchy. So I turned the heat on, full blast. It took so long to start taking off the chill that I got up and made sure I had turned the heater on properly. I had.
I fell asleep with the heater on, and when I awoke in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, boy--it was warm then!
Baby is a transsexual who is almost always cheerful and sunny. When I got to the day shelter I saw her, and she didn’t seem her usual self--she seemed a little down. So I said, Baby, where’s that sunshine of yours, where’s your smile, what’s up? “Oh, I’m OK, just cold. It sure was cold last night.”
It sure was.
Baby sleeps outside in a camp, with her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s family.
I fell asleep with the heater on, and when I awoke in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, boy--it was warm then!
Baby is a transsexual who is almost always cheerful and sunny. When I got to the day shelter I saw her, and she didn’t seem her usual self--she seemed a little down. So I said, Baby, where’s that sunshine of yours, where’s your smile, what’s up? “Oh, I’m OK, just cold. It sure was cold last night.”
It sure was.
Baby sleeps outside in a camp, with her boyfriend and her boyfriend’s family.