Live in your temples

Well now. Yesterday was freezing rain. If we'd been driving to the bush on pavement we would have turned back; because it was a gravel road (most roads around here are gravel) we could creep along between 40-60k and made it to the block.

Freezing rain, so: water was coming out of the sky and freezing onto everything. Everything was coated in crystal. we were going through lots of high brush, maybe ten feel high, some of which had been cut down to lie over the rest. There was an ATV ride involved. It should have been miserable, right? There were icicles an inch and a half long on the brim of my helmet. Everything was wet and freezing. I leaned against a tree for too long and my wet outer layer froze to it and came off with a sound like very fresh, very expensive Velcro.

I love these things. I was just happy. Not complicated, not ambivalent, just happy. Curious at the work, interested, relaxed, alert, happy.

I wonder what happens for me with that. Is there a biochemical thing, maybe light exposure? Is it a mind thing, doing something that takes focus in an environment perfectly suited to my type of focus? Is it a spiritual thing, being properly within the system?

I have no idea. I wish I could replicate it indoors but I can't. There is no looking this gift horse in the mouth. I will be satisfied with appreciating it.

Yoga's also made a re-emergence in my life. It's not always easy wrapping the schedule around work and chores and sleep but I'm learning to do it. Reconnecting with my body that way is powerfully good for me.

With daylight savings time and the new job my schedule has shifted. I'm doing chores before work and getting to work a little later. That lets me do chores in the first of the light sometimes and then I can collapse and be tired at night if I need to. It means my bedtime shifts earlier but that's ok: as long as I don't actually socialize with city folks, whose clocks always seem to run later, going to bed at 8:30-9pmish works well for my body and my rhythm.

So things are pretty good right now. The new job isn't feeling rushed, I guess I have no responsibilities yet so that helps.

My in-between vacation was kind of dark-feeling and then felt pretty rushed. I'm glad I've been able to pull out of that into a nicer feeling routine.

New office has high-wall cubicles instead of the dedicated office I could park a car in last job, but it also has a view of sunset over the lake for the next four months until it's light after work again. It's all good.

So nice for everything to be feeling good again.

Live in your temples

Well now. Yesterday was freezing rain. If we'd been driving to the bush on pavement we would have turned back; because it was a gravel road (most roads around here are gravel) we could creep along between 40-60k and made it to the block.

Freezing rain, so: water was coming out of the sky and freezing onto everything. Everything was coated in crystal. we were going through lots of high brush, maybe ten feel high, some of which had been cut down to lie over the rest. There was an ATV ride involved. It should have been miserable, right? There were icicles an inch and a half long on the brim of my helmet. Everything was wet and freezing. I leaned against a tree for too long and my wet outer layer froze to it and came off with a sound like very fresh, very expensive Velcro.

I love these things. I was just happy. Not complicated, not ambivalent, just happy. Curious at the work, interested, relaxed, alert, happy.

I wonder what happens for me with that. Is there a biochemical thing, maybe light exposure? Is it a mind thing, doing something that takes focus in an environment perfectly suited to my type of focus? Is it a spiritual thing, being properly within the system?

I have no idea. I wish I could replicate it indoors but I can't. There is no looking this gift horse in the mouth. I will be satisfied with appreciating it.

Yoga's also made a re-emergence in my life. It's not always easy wrapping the schedule around work and chores and sleep but I'm learning to do it. Reconnecting with my body that way is powerfully good for me.

With daylight savings time and the new job my schedule has shifted. I'm doing chores before work and getting to work a little later. That lets me do chores in the first of the light sometimes and then I can collapse and be tired at night if I need to. It means my bedtime shifts earlier but that's ok: as long as I don't actually socialize with city folks, whose clocks always seem to run later, going to bed at 8:30-9pmish works well for my body and my rhythm.

So things are pretty good right now. The new job isn't feeling rushed, I guess I have no responsibilities yet so that helps.

My in-between vacation was kind of dark-feeling and then felt pretty rushed. I'm glad I've been able to pull out of that into a nicer feeling routine.

New office has high-wall cubicles instead of the dedicated office I could park a car in last job, but it also has a view of sunset over the lake for the next four months until it's light after work again. It's all good.

So nice for everything to be feeling good again.