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A Friendship Blessing

A Friendship Blessing

May you be blessed with good friends.
May you learn to be a good friend to yourself.
May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love,
warmth, feeling, and forgiveness.
May this change you.
May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you.
May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship. and affinity of belonging.
May you treasure your friends.
May you be good to them and may you be there for them;
May they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth,
and light that you need for your journey.
May you never be isolated.
May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam cara.
— Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

I am currently reading this book.  Anam Cara is gaelic for Soul Friend.

don't waste it...

Kelli has this quote on her blog....so true. Sometimes I need to be reminded to follow my heart and not by the thoughts of others, real or imagined.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. {Steve Jobs}

maya angelou

"I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."  

 

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

 

"I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. "

 

"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."

 

night sounds

Dog barking Cars Airplane People walking by People talking Motorcycle Leaves blowing in the breeze Someone at the mailbox Car door closing Bird chirping

april to july walking

From April 1st to July 31st I have logged 11,158 minutes of activity, mostly walking.  So at a 20 minute per mile pace, that is 557.90 miles.  My longest one time walk was 11.5 miles.  I have done quite a few 8 mile walks and one 10.5 mile walk.

The journey has been amazing, to think I was worried about a 2.5 mile walk back in March is crazy to me now.  2.5 miles is just a warm up now.  I still take walk breaks at work, but usually I go on the elliptical instead, as the shorter walks just does not seem like enough.

Still the hardest part is finding hours at a time to walk the mileage that I need to be walking but it will just have to continue to be a priority for me.  This has been a great physical and mental commitment, one that I will not soon forget.

good & true

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge

of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but

the good & true things they would do someday.

may walking

May exercise minutes: 3014

 

 

April - May overall

Total number of minutes walked‎: ‎6023‎

Estimated number of miles ‎(‎strolling pace of ‎20 ‎min‎/‎mile‎): ‎301‎.‎15 ‎miles‎

making progress

I did my longest walk on Saturday, May 9th.  8 miles!  I headed for Eagan via Johnny Cake Road and back.  This Saturday I am going to log a 10 mile walk on the Gateway trail.  Last week, I did not get in the time and miles of walking that I am use to these days because of work.  Instead I mixed in the elliptical machine instead.  Just a few weeks ago 5-10 minutes on the elliptical killed my knees but now I am getting better at doing 30 minutes on it at a time.  It is painful but a good kind of pain.  :) 

note:  I just change "going to" from "hope to".   This is one thing that has changed for me, "maybe" "we'll see" are not in my vocabulary when it comes to making time to exercise.

april walking

Total number of minutes walked‎: ‎3009‎

Estimated number of miles ‎(‎strolling pace of ‎20 ‎min‎/‎mile‎): ‎150‎.‎45 ‎miles‎

 

 

the way i see it #293

The way I see it

Isn't necessarily
The way you see it
Or the way it is
Or ought to be
What's more important
Is that we're all
Looking for it
And a way to see it

-- Desi Di Nardo
Author and poet.