Feather in my hat

Monday's fitness was about doing 20 sit to stands, not difficult at all now, ten minutes visualizing, and a walk to the pond, that's about half an hour round trip not counting stopping to visit with ducks. Later a five minute HIIT.

There were half a dozen ducks, turtles lying about and frogs jumping. It's a whole small world there.

Coming home there were clumps of fleabane.  

I wonder if botanists don't like their work. The miserable names they give beautiful plants, I ask you. Fleabane, hogweed, lungwort, henbit! 

Notice the hobnail boot rhythm - - BANG pop, BANG pop, TIN ear,  need I go on. No wonder people learn the Latin, at least it's presentable.

And I found what I think is a redtail hawk feather, now home with its friends in a Shelley cream pitcher, Stocks pattern. 

The downy part is so soft you can't feel it. It may end in my hatband.

Speaking of which, I cut out the two layers of the crown and found silk thread and a fine needle to stitch them together. That's the next stage. 

Brown inside, yellow outside. Or possibly a reversible hat, then it could be brown outside. We'll see.

And I read this brief book 

more of a long essay, about allowing yourself grace as you handle life and illness, balancing rest and activity, indoors and out. 

I'm still recovering from the accident, very nervous about driving, forcing myself to do it so as to keep my nerve. Monday I went to the food pantry with a donation and to the library to return and pick up. I find if I add in something like the food pantry, thinking about other people, I can get to the other errands. It seems to work. That and it was the last day I could pick up the Recovery book.

It occurred to me that I'm really convalescing emotionally and physically from all the events of the year, major events to my body, house, car, savings, so I thought I could get some advice here.

He's the same doctor who wrote the book I loved about being human, a compassionate man.   I think what I'm doing is pretty balanced, so I'll keep doing it.  I don't want to medicate if I can manage not to. We'll see.

 Francis likes people to let themselves recover as they need to, without feeling they have to meet a deadline. And he makes the point that the doctor's work is done long before healing has got underway. 

In other news, Amazon has made a huge settlement because of deceptive enrolling practices in Prime.  Like the way they caught me. Maybe they'll  owe me??

Happy day everyone, chances are you're doing the right thing already so we can stop trying to improve! Me, I can't take much more character building. 

You got that right, sez Mme. Fluffinaire