daily meditation

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
—mahatma gandhi

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I’m trying to be good at setting aside some time to meditate each day, aside from my yoga practice.

I did yoga for about 2 hours yesterday, in 2 different sessions. I’ve been mainly focused on lotus pose and variations of it.

Last Friday, Tiffany at Bistro 221 gave me some packaged raw foods she’d picked up from Jimbo’s, and I’ll have to go there soon and pick some more. Thank you, Tiffany!

Yesterday’s show with Big Daddy Orchestra was a really good one. Thousands of people go to the Little Italy Festa each year, and we had what looked like a sea of people out there, looking out from the main stage. I feel this was our best show so far as a band, and we’re getting “tighter”. Everybody performed very well and I personally had a really good day, performance-wise.

One of my favorite moments during our performance was seeing a whole bunch of people doing a conga line during our rendition of “Hot Hot Hot”! Lena Prima (the daughter of legendary swingster Louis Prima) performed right before us and her band was super tight and her performance was most impressive. I was a little nervous going on after her… she was a tough act to follow, and even though I know that sounds cliche, she really was a tough act to follow. She is really great. But I felt so much better once we got to actually performing onstage ourselves. It was a really good, fun gig! And I heard that the Little Italy folks want us back again next year… cool!

If you missed our performance, too bad… there’s always next year! *hehehe*