Misgivings and Things To Do in Everyday Ramblings

I can’t resist one last beach picture. This was at sunrise on Saturday. A young woman was out on the beach before me, hence the three sets of footprints…hers up and back and mine. I feel calm just looking at it.

Saint Joe (a.k.a. crazy man with a mild anxiety disorder) couldn’t sleep early Sunday morning after a late flight home from California and logged into work at 2:21 AM and took care of the requests that came in while I was gone so re-entry yesterday wasn’t bad at all.

Except for the fact that it was re-entry. Sigh. Motivation is a bit lagging.

My annual eye exam is scheduled for this afternoon so I am taking it off. I will have my eyes dilated and I won’t be able to see anything anyway, not on the computer. No need for new glasses this year. That is a next year thing.

The one thing I was focused on while I was away was changing things up so that I am getting the cardiac fitness I need by working smarter not longer. As I get incrementally fitter I need to work more intensely to get my heart rate into the building health and endurance zone, my sports medicine “prescription” zone.

And I am finding that challenging! Either I work too hard or not enough.

Where is Goldilocks when a body needs her?

Of course Kes and Most Honorable laughed at me when they saw my spreadsheet on this. But how else am I supposed to tell if I am making progress? :)

My yoga class attendance is pretty stable but I need to work on marketing my classes some more.

My former coordinator with the church who was pushed into retirement by the church last year came as a drop in to my class last week and we had a good chat afterwards about my feelings towards the church and particularly the senior staff and she confirmed everything I was thinking about how in spite of good intentions and some wonderful people the organization is a mess and is in need of a shake-up.

She told me a number of people she knows and likes are taking “sabbaticals” from church life both in terms of support and attendance.

That is so sad to think that senior management is driving away a lot of good people in a misguided attempt to simplify the experience of the church based on some consultant from a very different kind of church.

I need to write a letter to the membership committee soon to explain why I am not renewing my membership at this time. This is a big deal for me and has been much on my mind. No one so far that I have talked to about this faults me on my decision to leave but still I wish I had the resources both financial and energetic to stay and fight for a better more supportive spiritual home.

And I need to vote! My ballot is sitting right on the other side of my laptop. Please vote. If you are here in the U.S. and haven’t already. No matter what your views are.

My secret hope (much cherished quietly) is that in spite of all the measures at suppression that turn out this midterm will blow prior statistical counts out of the water.

I heard about a magazine, I think it was Elle, that posted this headline that Kim and Kayne were breaking up and when you clicked on the link to read the article it took you to a website where you could check where and if you are registered instead.

It is classic bait and switch, but for a good cause. A tactic I do have misgivings about but we live in a world where it is easy to have misgivings about way too many things.

Diego, who is standing next to my laptop as I type, says that is why being a cat is so awesome.

He rarely has misgivings and the ones he has are about maybe choosing a mom that only gives him treats when he is getting his flea treatment applied…

I think he is looking forward to my retirement as much as I am. Or he would be if he thought past his immediate needs.