Patience and Paying it Forward in Everyday Ramblings

This is Patience. She is a Western Gull. Her territory, (along with Bob her mate) is the house on the beach on the Oregon Coast I go to twice a year. She is not proud. She struts up and down along the deck calling for food with that loud seagull call. We don’t feed her unless we have greens left over the last day, but someone does. She totally gets human mealtimes.

I took this picture last late October. You can see it is wet. It is wet now too and will rain intermittently the whole weekend and while I would love to get in a few vigorous beach walks during our time out there I don’t really care. My body is tired.

On Tuesday I was up in the beautiful room I have been teaching Caregivers yoga in for the last 18 months waiting to see if anyone could get away to work with me and I was thinking about how sore and tired I was. Normally when I am sore and tired what I need to do is yoga. I realized on Tuesday what I need to do now is…

Nothing.

Rest. The final frontier.

Last night, in between bouts of housework I watched the last two episodes of the final season of True Blood. The story diverges so much from the books that it is all very confusing. I am not sure I am happy with either ending but I sure as heck enjoyed the ride.

In the end no one did show up for Caregivers this week and I chatted briefly with the volunteers who also didn’t have anything to do, as it was a very quiet night on the unit. I chatted with Kes on the phone on the way home too and that helped the transition to letting this whole huge volunteer commitment go.

Personally I think chatting is totally underrated. We need it! It helps keep us grounded and balanced when our minds go off in all sorts of discursive or fantastical places. We tell ourselves stories. All day long. Everywhere we are.

It is nice to share them now an again.

One of the many benefits of being better rested I am looking forward to this long weekend is that I will make better food choices. When I am tired and emotional I do not make the best food choices.

I am still a few pounds under my goal weight but I have been gaining a bit lately and I need to nip that in the bud.

Today as I was making my bed with clean and comforting sheets I was thinking I was doing this for my future self. The one that will come home Sunday not looking forward to returning to work and the better food choices are for her too.

Paying it forward so to speak.

I am going to miss the cats though. Oh yeah.

But Patience will keep us entertained I am sure.

Last updated October 29, 2015