Returning to the Centre

I really need to learn how to write without being depressed.
Ten days and no words is unacceptable to me.

So, what have I been up to?

Well, there's work, of course. And there's the debt repayment quest I'm on--which is going well, and of which I am immensely proud. There is the to do list, which is growing shorter. (Can something grow shorter?) And there are baths. There are lots of baths. And the reading of novels and blogs. And yoga. Lots of yoga. There is meditation and napping and the recharging of batteries. There is much needed time off from routine. There have been long weekends and parties and live music played by friends. There have been new sweaters and walks to town and slowly, slowly (finally) getting my room set up the way I want it. There have been chats with friends from home; some still there, some scatttered in other far-flung corners of the world. There have been copious amounts of pictures taken that will eventually be processed and posted. There have been gifts of every possible kind. There has been a lot of s-l-o-w-i-n-g d-o-w-n.

Trips are being planned and will eventually be slowly saved for. Budgets are being made. There is a looking inward, that is typical of this time of year. It's almost Solstice and while I don't think I can manage a bonfire, I can definitely manage good food and good wine and maybe a gathering of friends.

They say we might get some snow again this winter. I hope they're right.

Next Thursday we're calling it a half day at work and all going out to celebrate, as you do at this time of year. Me and the six of them, always one in the middle of a group of guys, I wonder why it is that always happens. I'm grateful for the fact that they exist.

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Lately I've been doing soul-work, as you may have guessed. Cultivating abundance, patience, releasing requirements on others, raising my vibrational level, being more conscious and aware.

A journey towards Truth a little less forgotten.

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I found this wisdom today:

"Indeed, the body complex as a whole is greatly misunderstood due to the post-veiling assumption that the physical manifestation called the body is subject only to physical stimuli. This is emphatically not so."