Moving On (with Dahlia) in Everyday Ramblings

The flower clock is a few weeks behind us down in Salem and the dahlias are at their prime there now.

Not a doubt with the cooler longer nights and the rain that our three-month idyll with warm dry weather is over. The dark-eyed juncos are back from the mountains and at my feeders.

Yesterday I spent a fair amount of time composing a simple straightforward email resigning from my Women’s Circle. It is hard to let something go that has been such a part of one’s life for so long (15 years) but I know for me at this time, it is the right thing to do. I felt a sense of relief after I sent it off. It took courage to do that. The courage to change doesn’t come easy.

I hope the group can reformulate and be as strong as ever while H. recovers as much as she can. She is in intensive rehab that is taking every ounce of energy she has. Physically she is doing okay but there are still some major cognitive gaps. I just know I don’t have any “extra” resources of focus and time and energy to share there right now.

I did sign up for a five-week class on Dante’s Inferno that starts in a few weeks. I am very much looking forward to that. If I enjoy it, the teacher is going to teach the other two books of the Divine Comedy in the Winter and Spring.

I am still reading and enjoying and learning from The Third Plate by Dan Barber but yesterday I also picked up at the library this easy read that is absolutely fascinating called Gutbliss. It is by Robynne Chutkan M.D. who is a gastroenterologist and is all about the gastrointestinal system in women. And yes, our systems are different than men’s.

With my sister’s colorectal cancer and Kes’s gut issues that have been affecting the quality of her life I thought it was time to know more about how all this works. I know how to address certain issues with yoga but it takes patience and time, and most of us when we are not feeling well want a quick fix. It is cool to understand how everything works together.

I was just talking to Olga my yoga teacher, who is living in Michigan for a few years.

It was great to check in with her and talk about her challenges and observations moving to a new part of the country and setting herself up as a teacher. She said today that she was spoiled here to have a stable of long time students with which to explore the practices on a deeper level. She is teaching now at a Wellness Center and most of her clients have never had any exposure to yoga before and most often have a health issue so she constantly has to simplify and clarify and streamline and is learning a lot from that.

Speaking of yoga, I need to wrap this up and get out of here and go teach. Sorry to post and run.

Last updated October 02, 2014