A New Focus on Energetic Resources in Everyday Ramblings

I took this Saturday morning out in the fiercely cold East wind that brought the snow. Even though I had gloves on I was only able to take a few pictures before my hands started going numb. I am working on better protection, but in the meantime this rustic yard in the middle of one of our most upscale older neighborhoods has lots of memories for me.

It is a block from where I used to live, an unusual corner lot with no house on it, the house it belongs to is fairly large and in the middle of the block. There is an older mansion next to that. The folks that live here have chickens that used to roost in one of the trees near the sidewalk and Mr. Finch and me would often watch their complicated process getting into the tree at dusk.

This is also where, right here, the potbellied pig lived for years. He was a friendly fellow and we all fed him the approved food on the list that hung next to the fence.

I walked by here when I was going to get my massage and what is interesting is after I snuggled down on my belly on the heated table before she began came back to start, my tattoo, (the one I shared with Mr. Finch) on my lower back started to tingle energetically.

It’s never done that before!

As I go deeper into my own yoga practice as I have been doing these last few months I find I do have all kinds of interesting awareness that were not available to me before. One is a heightened sensitivity to the nuance of temperature and air currents.

As if I were a sailor on the open sea. It is all wonderfully odd.

My hope is that we are through the worst of the ice for now. I was able to go out yesterday afternoon without cleats or poles but man I was slipping yesterday morning getting to work. It was awful.

This is a pathological thing for me. I absolutely totally hate being out when it is icy.

I look at these folks sliding around like it is no big deal. To me it feels like a life or death thing. It is actually traumatic for me. And I am pretty much done with trying to prove how resourceful I am.

The area of the bus stop across the big busy street from the grocery store was like a solid sheet of ice on Tuesday night. I had had a challenging experience with ice and snow there two years ago. I give up. I surrender. I am not going there any more when the weather is iffy. It is only going to get more dangerous as I get older.

After work yesterday I was so tired from all the situational stress. It was a crazy busy day at work and not in a fun way too so I realized I didn’t have the energetic resources to go to the neighborhood meeting and stayed home and took a bath and finished reading FIM’s Mistletoe at Moonglow.

I enjoyed it but I kept waiting for the plot to appear. :) It is a cozy about lost souls finding a place to be for Christmas. And it has lots of cookie recipes in the back. Some of your recipes I see! How cool is that?

I made myself tea with more honey and lemon and the cats came and joined me reading in bed until I finished.

For now, this is hard for me but it is only for a short time, I am not going to expend any precious, (recently attuned to) energy on how much activity I am getting. The important thing is to marshal all the healing resources I have and focus on getting through all this dental work that starts tomorrow.

Last updated January 07, 2016