Good Bye to All That in Everyday Ramblings

We wanted to get a walk in on Saturday and we decided to walk over to the Pioneer Cemetery and then the adjacent more modern one near Kes and Most Honorable’s house. It is a lovely peaceful place with a view over the hill but you can’t get there on foot without walking down a very noisy thoroughfare.

This is why they don’t go there very often. Now with noise cancelling headphones that bit might be a little more enjoyable. (Amazingly, Santa brought them on Christmas Day the same Bose headphones I now have.) There is also talk of making a path through the back end of the property, which would also make walking to a favorite local grocery for them a thing that might be much more likely.

But in the meantime it was a journey of discovery for us all even though it was so close. I was happy to get a history fix, spend time with them both and buzz out on my Fitbit. (Buzzing out is what I call hitting my step goal for the day.)

Oh, and that is wasn’t raining.

The only time I have been more happy to let something I have been doing go lately than yesterday when I walked out of the studio after teaching my last class there for a time was when I walked out of the hospital after teaching there a few months back.

And this time I had a check in my bag. A nice big check. For this at least.

It is raining now.

The weather prognosticators are saying this will be it for a short while. We are going colder but with some clearing. We had a perfect snow on Sunday. Big gorgeous flakes so serenely falling but the ground was too warm for it to stick down here in the valley. We are all fine with snow, as it will shut down everything except essential services. But it doesn’t look likely in the near term.

I enjoyed my classes yesterday. We had heat in the evening and a little party with tea and petite fours after. I taught all about letting go that which does not serve us and then came home and ate chocolate and nuts.

Ha!

It was my way of celebrating the release of these oh so effortful ventures I have been involved in this year to build my “retirement profession” as a yoga teacher.

My goal for 2016 is to do what I enjoy as much as I can. So even though something might be perceived as work, say prepping for my classes, teaching them or writing, or cooking some yummy warm vegetable dish, because I enjoy it… it has a sense of ease, and because I like it I want to keep doing it. Or going for a walk.

Speaking of that, the intrepid F, who I think is turning 80 next year, and is a student in my class, as well as a member of Women’s Circle, has decided to join S. and me for the First Run (which we will walk) at midnight along the river on Thursday night.

Talk about role models!

Goodbye effort, hello fun.