I spent a little time in Windsor doing some cat and housesitting. Saw some great sites on my walks, including beautiful sunrises, Christmas decorations, and some very cool free little libraries – one had a Free little seed library attached!
Over the weekend, I got the Christmas tree up and decorated, and the lights up on the house. It brings back such memories when I look at the Christmas ornaments that the kids had picked out over the years. I laughed, remembering how excited the girls were when they chose the Tinky-Winky and Po ornaments, and remembering the big uproar about Teletubbies when they were little. They loved that bizarre show.
I’ve been getting out for an evening walk every night, so I can see the Christmas lights in the neighborhood. There is a house in the neighborhood with a huge pine tree that they put a star on top of years ago, I think it was even there when my parents moved to Mill Valley in 1968! I always love seeing that star when I am walking or driving in the neighborhood, another sign of the holiday season. I also got out for my favorite hike up to the Miwok trail. It was gorgeous seeing the sun shining on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge and the hazy outlines of the hills, plus a banana slug!
was lucky enough on my drive home from work the other day to see a beautiful sunset. I stopped briefly in Point Richmond for a walk and passed an art gallery with very bright paintings in the window. On closer inspection they weren’t exactly what I was expecting, but I liked their vibrancy and how funkiness.
Cloudy mornings have meant seeing beautiful sunrises on my walks. Oh! And I really recently passed 25 million steps on my phone Pedometer!
The Tale of Two Wolves has come up a couple of times in the past week for me, so that’s giving me something to think about. It was part of the theme of the book, The Grey Wolf that I just finished reading. Then when I was looking at memories from a year and a half ago when I was in Wyoming, I saw a photo I had taken of a wall hanging that had the tale of the two wolves on it. I take this as a reminder to realize that I decide which wolf I feed, I decide how I want to interpret situations and things happening in my life and in the world. Yep, definitely important to me right now.
What else has been coming up for me:
I’m thinking about work relating to helping people simplify their lives, subtracting instead of adding things to their lives – stuff, activities, responsibilities. I have to always guard against this – wanting to be busy all the time, the glow of accomplishment.
Subtract the excess and increase gratitude for what you already have. Free yourself from the stuff and responsibilities keeping you bogged down.
So consumed by making things work at work, find solutions to the chaos. Maybe there aren’t solutions or they are too complex for me to figure out on my own, maybe that isn’t my role?