I am so perfectly content in this exact moment in time. How’s that for mindfulness? Liam and I came home from camping this morning. It wasn’t a rushed trip, as there were a couple of slow vehicles in front of us nearly the entire way. The ipod played Abbey Rd and Magical Mystery Tour and we both sung along (Liam does love The Beatles!)
I got the bulk of my uni assignment finished near midnight Friday, we left for camping Saturday. Campfire on Saturday night was one of the best I’ve been at… multiple guitars and harmonicas. Lots of Pink Floyd, blues, et al. Some veyr stimulating talk about psychedelic drugs, literature, music, art and god knows what else (a fair amount of alcohol was consumed and I am don’t remember everything in its entirity! Which is not to say I was rolling drunk). Liaim and I went for a good long walk Sunday afternoon, along the ‘river’ side, took some lovely pics … will dl them off my phone to share. Going to sleep with the sound of the river (which is more of a creek really) babbling loudly over all the rocks. Frogs, bats. Waking up to the liquid warbling of the magpies. My favourite McGackle Birds. Kookaburras sitting over our heads come close to dinner time. I’ve scored my parents tent by default now, as they don’t use it anymore. Nothing like sleeping on a blow up matress on a camp stretcher. Got a little sunburned on my back, so now I smell like menthol and frangipani 🙂
Got home this morning to get on the computer immediately to finish the assignment … only a cover page and bibliography needed doing. And turned it in online. YAY. 3200 words. DONE. Now I’m panicking about my mark. I’m still suffering some loss of normal brain function due to chemo and it wasn’t as good as I could have done previously. Anyway.
Some changes occurring right now. I am itching to get started on this mindfulness course. I feel better than I have in such a long time lately. Somebody, last week, accused me of having made no progress despite all of the therapy I have had since being diagnosed with cancer last year. I can only shake my head. I have made so much progress it’s hard to believe. Mind you, the person that said this did it as a deliberate jab intended to hurt me I think, as I had only just been saying to them about how far I had come. Turning something that was good into an insult. Yep. But I know the truth. I’m not likely to get an apology, but … water off a ducks back this time. The reality is that I’m seeing so much clearer, and calmer, these days, that I see what is for what it is.
Been a lot of thinking lately. Questioning. Reprioritising. All good. Freeing, ah God SO freeing. I’m getting my oomph back (Still waiting for the mental and physical oomphs though ha ha!). Growing my spine back again. Been a while.
And on another totally random note, I’m waiting to hear from the removalists when they will be able to bring my piano up to me. Life is good. Friends … true friends who don’t hurt each other … are precious. Frogs, birds and water are the treasures. And I’m tired and not writing very well at all. Brainfreeze due to uni assignment overload ha! So now, I am getting prone to find Buddha …
Liam has such good taste.
God, your camping trip makes me want to head for the woods. It sounds like heaven.
A lyric that keeps running through my mind lately:
The key to traveling light
Is to not need very much….
Yeah, I’m brainwashing him well ha ha! A few extra days camping would have been SO good, but then again, perhaps not. Considering the dust storms.
Great lyric. In a VERY still and silent place right now, so much change. Will tell.