Introducing my pug / chinese crested cross – Pretzel. According to google she is a “thing”. She is a “Pugese”. Look them up. She seems to have more hair than most. Being biased, I think she is prettier than most.
Anyway – although impossibly cute – she is not to be the point of this first blog post.
I go for the same 5k walk around the streets where I live at least once a day. Most days I am listening to music (the Nashville soundtracks are my current obsession) and fantasising about a life that is certainly not going to happen. Now this is obviously not healthy! My real life has not got a hope of matching up to this one! And – I am definitely not “living in the present moment”. This is not following Buddhist teachings and will not make for a happy Tee. 
So today, whilst listening to Russell Brand’s “Under the Skin” podcast with Charles Eisenstein, I actually looked around me and took notice as I walked. I lived in the present and appreciated what was around me – the sky, some flowers hanging on from summer, autumn leaves. I even managed to notice and, hence, pick up a discarded McDonalds bag. I stopped to talk to an elderly woman walking her very sweet yorkie.
After a very enjoyable walk, I returned home and have had an extremely productive day.
Let’s hope I learn all of the lessons from this! And do the same tomorrow – and the next day.
Today has been my most positive day in a long time. It is all in the mind. It is all about how I deal with my thoughts and my emotions. It is about skillful thinking.
“Let’s hope I learn all of the lessons from this! And do the same tomorrow – and the next day.”
You will – but maybe not everyday – life is a path of hills – the ups are tough, but if run too fast on the downs, we can crash.
Of the women I know, you are one of the most courageous, moving on from what you have been to what you can be, taking risks while others cower behind what is safe.
Walk well and walk long, x
Thank you for your lovely comments. Sometimes I think that I am foolhardy rather than courageous… Or just optimistic that life can be better. I have run too fast on the downs recently – hence I crashed.