I’ve done a lot of journaling today exploring my prompt: What is it like to be me in the world today? Honestly, it’s kind of a mess. I just got over the 24-hour stomach flu. It was wicked. I could hardly get out of bed yesterday except to throw up. I had R most of…
I’m sitting on the beach with the sun on my face and the salty breeze flowing through my hair. It’s such a blessing that I get to live here, where in October I can enjoy this warm, temperate weather. I remember last winter considering whether I would have been able to tolerate this part of…
Yesterday I got back in the water for the first time in two weeks. Pretty much every time I walk into the ocean with my surfboard, I feel intimidated. Yesterday I paused on the sand and did some yoga stretches before paddling out (probably should have done more as my neck and shoulders are a…
I’m thinking about times and seasons today. These natural transitions of seasons are like embedded mileposts marking my progress through time. I am home sick in bed today with some terrible bronchitis/walking pneumonia concoction. It’s not very often I have a day to lie in bed and the company of my pillows, the sunshine and…
I’ve just experienced an incredible week of quiet in my head. I want to describe it so it can be documented in case it NEVER happens again. I think I arrived at the quiet simply because I got so tired of listening to the argument between two versions of myself, that one or both sides…