Monday, June 2, 2014
Day One
I took my first yoga clas today at the most beautiful, relaxing, inspiring studio called The Lotus Pond. It is a lovely log cabin on a pond with a little waterfall in it. What could be more relaxing? I am painting tonight in one of my mom's classes with a dear friend. That should be fun. I always enjoy my mom's classes. Wine, music, Mom, a paint brush and a canvas, what's not to love? And I am also starting a thirty day blogging challenge today. I haven't posted to the blog since the fall, so that changes today, too. So far, I love this day!
We are in the middle of The Great Purge of 2014 here, so if I don't need it, use it, or love it, it is out the door! The goal is for everything to have a place, a home, somewhere it belongs in the house. Closet is already done: two garbage bags full of clothes for donation, and two garbage bags full of shoes to donate. Still need to do bags, but there is time. Books have been collected from the overflowing bookshelves and only the essentials were kept. The ones we released went to gain credit at the used book story so I can continue building my classroom library, and the rest were donated to the Hospice thrift store.
Busy seems to be the name of the game. I picked out a yoga class for every day this week, then I have things going on every afternoon and evening. People to see, celebrations to enjoy, work to do. It has long been my practice to put all of those things ahead of taking care of myself, but no more. I realize that if I always feel awful, I am of no help to anyone. I will find time for yoga classes. I may even work in time at the gym. Wouldn't that be crazy? It is just time to feel better and focus on wellness. I have had a headache or migraine almost every day for at least the last month. Now we work on changing that. It is time. This is the time to do one thing for myself every day. That will be my yoga class.
We have seen so much loss this year, dear friends, parents of dear friends, spouses of dear friends, it is time to grab life by the shoulders and make the most of every day. It is crazy how quickly it can all be gone. I want to do whatever it takes to be healthy enough to stick round for the long haul.
My sweetheart and I celebrated eight years together last night. Eight more will not be nearly enough. We talked at dinner last night about what have been the best things, most surprising things, and most enjoyable things in the last eight years. What is all comes down to is that we both feel so damn lucky to have found each other. Have the last eight years looked like I expected them to? Not even close, but that have looked outstanding! I wouldn't trade a minute of them.
So now we begin the next phase with ridding ourselves of clutter, making time to reenergize, and to reflect every day. But we do this one day at a time.
That's twenty minutes of writing! Wow, the kids are right, it helps a lot!
Peace and Namaste.
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