Variations on a Sun Theme in Everyday Ramblings

Our weather pattern is certainly changing. We have heavy rain for a few days and then we have gorgeous cold days where the low sun comes in under the leaves of the huge historic copper beech up on the corner.

Today is our coldest day yet this season. Many of the trees are bare and it is wintery.

My hair person did a two color heavy weave last Friday afternoon and brought my hair to very blonde and bright. I think it is a huge dramatic change but apparently that is just my perception. Even Kes, who was up visiting on Sunday didn’t really notice it was a significant change and not one of my students this week said a thing, nor did anyone at work. I finally asked Saint Joe, when we were alone in a conference room today if he had noticed.

He said, “Well it seems brighter.”

I guess the most important thing is that I like it. And I do. But it was expensive and time consuming.

We had our annual computer upgrade last Saturday and it went well, best upgrade yet…

Except. Isn’t there always an except? No one told me, and I did not figure out that the address to the online forms that I designed and implemented over the last few years was changing. We knew the login screens were changing but we have a Vanity Name that is easy to remember that we instructed folks to use. It incorporates any address changes behind the scenes.

But instead it turns out, more than half our users have a saved favorite instead.

And obviously we don’t know who those folks are.

So it has been quite intense in terms of constant emails over the last three days. Not to mention everyone is getting their work in now so they can run away and play over the long weekend and we had higher one day volumes than ever before, busy busy, crazy busy.

My goal for the holiday tomorrow is not to answer anyone’s questions. I’d like to leisurely flow from one self-chosen task to another at my own speed in my own way.

I am tired. The Challenge yoga practice yesterday was very energetic and I did the best I could with it but there were things I could not do. I knew I was in trouble when they went to a handstand five minutes into the class. Ha! And they held the headstand for 25 breaths. Not only won’t I teach that, I won’t do it! Even if you are very strong, avoiding compression on the vertebrae of the neck is practically impossible.

The practice today was lovely. Nice and easy and relaxed focus on the hips. Perfect for a stiff exhausted older woman.

I finally after all these months met the fellow (he is a visual artist) that lives about four blocks away last night on my walk. He wrote the online book about my neighborhood that I have been mining for tidbits. He was working on his weeds after being off in Europe for a number of weeks. We talked for close to an hour and if it hadn’t been so cold…

It was funny, we were gossiping about people that lived here 100, 50, 30 years ago!

He was excited to find someone else to talk to about all this “stuff”. He appears to be a smart, balanced, engaged fellow who is curious about all sorts of things and he totally got the idea of the layers of history I am laying down in the poems on top of each other.

He’s married so this isn’t that… just in case you were wondering… but he is a truly cool guy and open to communicating with me further and even having me add to his book.

How cool is that?

And the fact that the sun is out though so low in the sky it will be gone soon…

Best get out there and enjoy it.

Last updated November 26, 2015