Excuses and koans

Its hard to blog about practice when you only made a little of it.  I have a good excuse though, as my daughter was born that day.  I left the hospital with her resting with her mother, and opened the zendo.  We all sat a period of zazen, lit incense, then I turned the meeting over the Chris Wilson, who led the group in the koan:

The great way is not difficult, it merely avoids picking and choosing. 

I am asking Chris, and the others who attended to add comments with their impressions of that day. 

My impressions of that day?