Daily Archives: September 3, 2014

A Meditation on Weeds

Oh what a tangled web we weave

Oh what a tangled web we weave

I’ve been watching Weeds, a show I discovered in 2012 when I had the Showtime channel for a promotional month.  Starring Mary-Louise Parker, I saw a half dozen episodes in 2012 and then forgot about it until I got Netflix and saw it on the lineup.  Score!  It took me a few months to get to it, but I began watching with Season 1, Episode 1 and watching a few in a row in the midnight hours.  It’s the first time I’ve done that, spent hours at a time immersed in a show and I used it as a format for observation, as I would had I stepped into their life with them.  I got to know each character and, thanks to excellent production and editing, got to feel I was right there with them during everything they went through.  Each day I’d take the events into my meditation, as I would my own real life previous day’s events.   Continue reading