Today is all about Radical Self-Care. Then again, when isn't it? Started out on my walk this morning, and had to turn around because of the lower back/piriformis/hip pain. Found a wonderful yoga video for sciatica (yo, Adriene... ;-), and did it twice!
Ordered a weighted heating pad as well as a portable massager (I miss you, Karen!) from Amazon, then took a super-hot and extra-long epsom salt bath, then made myself a large cup of hot tea, then started a new book.
Will make a chickpea meatloaf (I hear some of you saying yum, and others yuck), with brussels sprouts, corn, and wild rice for dinner tonight. The plan is to get in the bed early, and see what tomorrow brings. Every Day Is Day One, right?
SONG: Be Yourself by Graham Nash
BOOK: Your Aching Back: A Doctor's Guide to Relief by Augustus A. White III, MD [For my 60th birthday party, August 2014, I asked people to give me a copy of their favorite book, inscribed to me, explaining why they loved it. This was from my brother... :-) ]
POEM: Caretake This Moment by Epictetus
Caretake this moment.
Immerse yourself in its particulars.
Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed.
Quit the evasions.
Stop giving yourself needless trouble.
It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.
You are not some disinterested bystander.
Exert yourself.
Respect your partnership with providence.
Ask yourself often, How may I perform this particular deed
such that it would be consistent with and acceptable to the divine will?
Heed the answer and get to work.
When your doors are shut and your room is dark you are not alone.
The will of nature is within you as your natural genius is within.
Listen to its importunings.
Follow its directives.
As concerns the art of living, the material is your own life.
No great thing is created suddenly.
There must be time.
Give your best and always be kind.
QUOTE: “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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