Monk Life - Day 8

White skies with the air temperature in the 70's, which at this time of year would be cool, but this is the warmest it has been in weeks. I had a nice walk in the morning, decided not to do chess study today. Maybe I will diminish the amount of time I am spending on the sessions due to the fact I don't plan on playing major tournaments anytime soon. I do enjoy the meditative aspect of the study sessions, when I study a master chess game I feel I am getting a glimpse of an unusual meditation taking place on a 64 square board.

In the afternoon I walked to the nearby park and sat on a bench and read Confession of a Buddhist Atheist, then in the evening I went to Millennium Park and listened to a free classical music concert while reading more of the book.

Because I won't be able to keep the many boxes of photographs which I recently received from my ex-wife, I have decided to photograph as many as I can, hopefully one per day, and post them here so that after they are gone for good I can still look at some of them here on this site.

 Artifact, 1997