Just back from the gym.  It’s amazing, at this age, how rapidly you can lose vitality, stamina, energy, and all that good stuff by simply missing a workout or two.  So here’s a thought I had while sitting on the potty before going swimming.  Once the poop is in the bowl, it’s certainly not a part of ‘me’… who I am.  But before it leaves… while it’s still inside me… it is part of me.  It adds to my weight, affects my movements, produces gas, etc., so it is part off me… right?  Or not.  Am I just the body that is processing the food and turning it into shit… which means that there is extraneous material inside me at all times?  Or am I really the consciousness inside that housing I think of as my body which is just as alien to who ‘I’ am as the poop inside it?  Interesting.

peace………….ag