Up :
Good thing it didn’t happen while
the grandtwins were here.
Down:
Monday morning, after having gotten up, eaten breakfast, and tidied a bit around the house, I stepped into the garage – literally one step – to toss a newspaper in the recycle bin and my knee went kaflooey.
The weekend whizzed right by. We had the grandgirls for an overnight, something that doesn’t happen too often since they live an hour and a half away.
Well, it’s here. There’s no escaping it. Granted, our days
are now dappled, sunny, and in the upper 50s, but we all know what’s around the
corner.
In the meantime, we can just enjoy the
view:
My Kohl’s Cash bonus of $20 was burning a hole in my pocket so I stopped by to see what I could score. Kohl’s has never exactly been haute couture, but I thought maybe I could pick up a t-shirt for yoga or some such thing.
Like so many other truths, you really can’t go home again. In my case, there’s no one there anyway and Arlington, VA is unrecognizable now – more like L.A. than the suburbia I remember, now full of traffic and tall buildings.
This morning the room contained at least thirty people but
the silence was profound until my yoga class was briefly disturbed by a sneeze,
followed by a neighbor’s “bless you.”
Yoga offers an opportunity to reflect on life, so my deep
thought was, “Does anyone say gesundheit anymore?”
Then there’s the fact that we all get
a bit shorter with age, which makes sense- gravity and all. But why do our ears
and noses continue to grow? I can’t imagine what evolutionary issue that ever
addressed.
You can see that meditation for me is
a work in progress.
