Weekly Wisdoms #19

Here we are at the end of March. It feels like we have lived a thousand years in this year already and we still have 9 months to go. If I look back at the chaos, it hasn’t been bad. A lot of positive things have happened despite the chaos. We recently entered the season of Aries which is all about being bold and taking action and I can feel it.

Glimmers

(Glimmers are micro-moments of joy that make us feel happy, hopeful, and safe.)

• We had a little rain this week and it was glorious. It is a bit late to still be raining but I love the cooler weather.
• Jack started assessments this week and is doing really well.
• I booked a weekend away for David and I for next weekend and I am counting down the days.
• I got my 3 walks in. I will write more about my Sunday walk in the weekly wisdoms – it was not pleasant.
• I went of a sports massage and it was rough. My shoulders are a mess, its nothing new. It has to do with how I walk. She released pressure points – painfully but I do feel much looser now.
• I also had a facial this week which is not something I do often. It involved dermaplanning which I have never done but made my skin look amazing afterwards.
• Eve and I had coffee twice and there is still stuff I forgot to tell her.
• We treated ourselves to take out on pay day. We got Indian from our local restaurant and I think they have the best Indian food in South Africa. I have not once ordered something I didn’t enjoy.
• I played around with some iron on vinyl and added a little Africa love to a plain tee.

My Weekly Wisdom..

Each Sunday I walk with a group of ladies at a different location. We walk 5 km and always the easy routes wherever we go. It is designed to more a walking group than a hiking group, even though we do do a few challenging routes.

Last Sunday we walked Klapperkop – which obviously is a koppie (little mountain) so I knew it was going to be tough. The group also walked it last year and did say it was tough. It was supposed to be only 4km so I figured I could manage it, even if it was tough.

Nine kilometers and 2.5 hours later and I was questioning EVERTHING!

If it was 9 flat kilometers it would have been one thing but it was about 5 kilos of sheer elevation. We went down, then up and up and up and then down again. But then up and up and up. By the time we realised we were definitely not on the 4km trail we were too far in to do anything, so had to just go where the path led.

There was a point I sat down and contemplating calling David and his helicopter buddies to come air lift me out of there – sounds dramatic but I was struggling to breath and my legs felt like lead. Fortunately we were all struggling – no one was prepared for 9km and most of us can manage 5km comfortable but we are not a racing group, so aren’t really interested in pushing ourselves. We stopped often, swore a lot, motivated each other and shed a tear when we saw our cars.

Am I proud I pushed through the pain? Yup (but also there wasn’t really a choice).
Will I walk that route again? No. Not because I am anti a challenge but it was just not fun, almost from the beginning.
Did it take me the day to recover? Yes, yes it did!

Picture of the Week

Wise Words of the Week

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung

Words of the Week

I am joining up with the Word of the Week link party this week so my word for the week would have to be RECOVERY. It felt like I spent the week recovering from things – my walk, a bad night of sleep, my massage.

Until next week!