On a Whim in Nicaragua

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I used inspiration from the internet to draw my witch on the broom....I am pretty happy with her. Here is the rest of my spreads for this month....However I have run across a desire to change my weeklies to a pocket size that I can carry around easily like a wallet.  I am working on it now.  Check back for later this month or for it to begin in November..... This month I chose doodle prompts by @ellolovely.  This will remain in the A5 for future months as I like to see how my doodling advances over time.  I used the dutch door again as you can tell by the prompts in the margin. I like the spider web and little spiders for my habit tracker this month.

TRAVEL-Isla Juan Venado   First a consideration of the 5 senses:  sight, smell, touch, sound and feel.  In everyday life often are we overwhelmed in one or more of these senses?  What do we do?   What makes us feel balanced again? When we smell the garbage truck, we go ugh and plug our nose. When the disco plays until 2 am and we can almost feel the music, we cover our ears with a pillow or create a white noise to drown it out. When all of my senses are overwhelmed, I use one of 2 responses:  I cry or I withdraw into myself blocking out all sensory input, not unlike a turtle.  Yoga Sutra 2.54 by Patanjali discusses pratyahara:  withdrawal of the senses. "When a yogi withdraws all his senses from the objects of perception as a turtle withdraws its limbs when retracting into its shell, then the yogi is firmly fixed on the path towards wisdom."  Bhagavad Gita 11.58 In Kurmasana, we root the sitting bones, flex the f...