fahrenheit to celsius

We ended up meeting late for Shams, technically the next day for him. Nice to connect with him. It's not a perfect time to meditate when Ruby is around, but it happened. I liked my morning his afternoon meditation, but Shams is busy. He's good at tell me he's busy, so I can not wait around and just get on with my practice. 

I still meditate at 6AM. My Indian friend never connected, but he did go on line once he said. I tried to get him to do Telegram, which is how I communicate with Shams, Amir and Sepehr. 

Today is karuna. Struggling with the BVs lately, that's interesting. Mostly because I'm so isolated, not a lot of people in my life I don't love wildly. I can see their suffering. 

I can imagine my daughter's suffering, but I asked her to describe. Fear of being hungry. Fear of being poor and sitting on the side of the road. Fear of losing all her friends. Fear of losing her parents. She lost her cat, and she cried a lot about that. She feels overwhelmed by messes. Sometimes her belly hurts, she gets headaches, and she gets growing pains in her leg. She falls sometimes and gets hurt playing. She doesn't like being cold, and dirty. 

I told her about how karuna is framed by metta and mudita, so it's not always full up on suffering. I asker her her joys. When she's around her friends and family. The last time she was really happy? She went to a friend's birthday party. She likes the absence of cold. It's been cold here, 23 is as low as it's been before school. It was 19 degrees fahrenheit. In Iran they use celsius, and  23 translates to -5. It's 4 in Mashhad, which is 40 fahrenheit. 

Feel like I'm always adding 8.5 hours to the clock and figuring out the conversion from fahrenheit to celsius. 

Kayqubad I was the patron to Rumi's father Baha Valad in Konya. I'm less and less interested in Rumi as a Muslim, but I am interested in Islam some. The journey from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, through Iran to Bagdad, to Mecca, and then further and further into Turkey is interesting to me. Travel is something I love. I'm fascinated by how amazing this earth is. I'm going to try and dog out this book about Rumi, but other books are calling me louder now.

We met at 3:30, and I said, "the grass is always greener," and he said in Iran they say the neighbors chicken is a goose. Another phrase is, "they keep their face red (with slaps)," regarding everyone is suffering.