Safety in Numbers in Everyday Ramblings

So Sunday morning the sun sort of came out just after dawn and our time change and I put on all my raingear and went out on the beach for a walk. It was the first blue sky we had seen all weekend.

It was dramatically stormy on Saturday, Halloween. Buckets and buckets of rain came sheeting down. Most Honorable and I tried to walk before the rain came but it was hard going into the gale. We get bonus points for trying. The wind died after and though it was wet we managed to get back out.

On Sunday though on my own far down the empty beach there was this huge flock of gulls, huge, and I wasn’t sure why until curving up around them so as not to spook them I saw a couple of crows pecking at something and then an adult bald eagle with a juvenile still all dark. (They don’t get the white heads until year 3 or so). They were massive birds! I have never been that close before as I either see them in the sky or a tree.

I didn’t have my camera so this is with my phone. They took off and the gulls rose up as one mass and I turned around and took this shot.

So much for not disturbing them.

Poor Kes had shoe issues. Her hiking shoes, which she hadn’t worn for a time literally fell apart, one sole flopping like a clown. We tried duct tape but the cushioning in the foot bed was disintegrating. She had sturdy sandals and the last day she did walk with socks but it was not the most pleasurable experience.

As advertised I did nothing for over three days. I looked out the window a lot at the Pacific Ocean. I read but didn’t finish anything, I walked but not really enough to hit my Fitbit goals, I colored in my Goddess coloring book but only one picture, I missed the cats terribly and enjoyed being away from their constant presence.

We ate good healthy homemade food and drank a little alcohol, just enough to be relaxing and managed to keep the snacking to a minimum. I at least didn’t gain any weight.

What yoga I did, and I did do yoga, was focused on me; my body, my concerns and limitations. It was a big change not to think about my students. And now that I have more there is more to think about there.

Because I am only teaching two classes a week starting this week I am doing a 30 Day Gratitude Challenge and a practice just for myself every day. I can’t do a full practice all at once so I break it up in chunks throughout the day.

I admit that it feels a bit like Christmas not to need to go up to the hospital to teach tonight. I have a work meeting that will probably run late and then I am going grocery shopping and then I get to do whatever the heck I feel like after that!

Work is not fun and I need to scrounge up a sense of humor about it all. Oh and find some concentration and focus somewhere. I have a high level meeting on the hill tomorrow morning that involves, well, umm, doctors and researchers. I usually only deal with their support and financial staff. They want me to come up and talk about the tool I developed and have been training out for the last year and why it is a good thing to update one’s processes now and then.

It is so weird to have this visibility after being (dare I say?) abused and ignored for seven years.

It sure would be nice to have a flock to hide out in now and again.

As my student base increases I think they might, just might, provide that for me.

Boy do I love to share these teachings. :)

Last updated November 03, 2015