ABDI ASSADI » Uncategorized http://abdiassadi.com Shadows on the Path - Healer, Author, Counselor, Ally - NYC, NY, USA Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:06:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Shadows on the Path - Healer, Author, Counselor, Ally - NYC, NY, USA Abdi Assadi no Abdi Assadi abdiassadi@gmail.com abdiassadi@gmail.com (Abdi Assadi) Creative Commons Shadows on the Path - Healer, Author, Counselor, Ally - NYC, NY, USA abdi assadi, podcast, shadows on the path, healer ABDI ASSADI » Uncategorized http://abdiassadi.com/site/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://abdiassadi.com/category/uncategorized New York, NY Monthly New abdiassadi.com site is up http://abdiassadi.com/new-abdiassadi-com-site-is-up http://abdiassadi.com/new-abdiassadi-com-site-is-up#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:06 +0000 Abdi http://abdiassadi.com/?p=1622 →]]> Apologies for receiving mailings for old posts as we sort out the new site. It is easier to navigate and specific topics can now be accessed via the search function in the blog section. Also, I have put up some of my art work from the past twenty five years under the collage section.

As you celebrate/survive/dread these holy-days/horror-days/holidays remember that you are that you seek. And please, don’t think and drive.

Love to you
abdi

]]> http://abdiassadi.com/new-abdiassadi-com-site-is-up/feed 2 I took a walk today http://abdiassadi.com/i-took-a-walk-today http://abdiassadi.com/i-took-a-walk-today#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:10:09 +0000 Abdi http://abdiassadi.com/?p=108 →]]> I took a walk today. As I do every workday, at 6:00 AM, four blocks from
my apartment to my office. This is like walking in brackish water; the
late-night party people are straggling home while the early birds are
walking their dogs or jogging to the gym. I feel my feet on the hard
concrete and drop my breath. I start the day by attempting to be as
present as I can as this moment will inform the rest of my day. My
game with myself is to notice several new things on each walk: an
unnoticed piece of architecture, a crack in the sidewalk or an unfamiliar
dog. The color of the flowers in front of the deli was particularly bright in
the cloudy twilight. The smell of bacon in front of the diner was particularly
pungent, hanging in the humidity of the early morning.

The same walk for over a decade and something new every day. Yet the
witness, this old friend who watches through my eyes and smells through
my nose, who lives within and beyond this single human specimen, is strangely
the same. What if I had died last night and I am in a bardo state, my spirit walking
out of my apartment out of habit? I chuckle, feel my feet and drop my breath. I
take solace in the fact that in the river of life this city street carries, my awareness
of this witness is all I have. Thirty three years walking these New York City streets,
the teenage boy and the middle aged man, walking step in step.

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