Just back from Kyogle where we took Mikaela for a teeth clean and polish. Cheap as chips going to a country mixed practice vet rather than a town small animal vet. Dachshunds everywhere (vet's wife has 5, plus 2 of her sons that she's looking after). Reception was clean and simple, no clever tech advertising stuff to sell you stuff. Felt like home. Mikaela fine with good breath and squeaky clean ears.
And that's all I've time to write as R came.
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Post 35 of 92
Wow, two posts in two days.
Up early, well before dawn to do chores before attending an Iyengar class. My second. Went last week and didn't like it. It's referred to as Furniture Yoga with good reason; blocks, straps, cushions, bolsters, folded blankets, ropes attached to walls, chairs (for some). Got a little impatient and muttered, I hope inaudibly, under my breath adjusting the blocks for the umpteenth time so I could do shoulder stand, a pose I have no problem doing.
The reason I am going today is it seems to be helping my neck. For months now my neck has been getting progressively stiffer, so much so that I was having to turn my upper body to check for traffic while driving. Gave up headstands thinking that might help. It didn't. Didn't know what else to do save go to a doctor which I have managed to avoid for about 15 years now. So went to class, came home happy to have given it a try but knowing it wasn't for me. Except. Late that afternoon while walking suddenly realized I'd turned my head to look for a bird singing in the roadside and I had almost full range of motion back again. Still hurt to turn my neck but not nearly as much.
Might be coincidental or it might be Iyengar is popular for a reason. Even the woman who introduced me said she disliked it at first but adores it now. Has lots of books for me to read if I'm interested.
One of the many unlooked for side effects of yoga is introducing oneself to the extreme bias of the body. Never understood how crooked I was, even to how much weight I put on each leg, until doing yoga. I'd hoped consistent practice would help to make me more even-handed or footed, but although I think it has helped, it hasn't cured. Perhaps this form of yoga will help.
This is all part of me saying Yes to things rather than no. More on that in another post.
Up early, well before dawn to do chores before attending an Iyengar class. My second. Went last week and didn't like it. It's referred to as Furniture Yoga with good reason; blocks, straps, cushions, bolsters, folded blankets, ropes attached to walls, chairs (for some). Got a little impatient and muttered, I hope inaudibly, under my breath adjusting the blocks for the umpteenth time so I could do shoulder stand, a pose I have no problem doing.
The reason I am going today is it seems to be helping my neck. For months now my neck has been getting progressively stiffer, so much so that I was having to turn my upper body to check for traffic while driving. Gave up headstands thinking that might help. It didn't. Didn't know what else to do save go to a doctor which I have managed to avoid for about 15 years now. So went to class, came home happy to have given it a try but knowing it wasn't for me. Except. Late that afternoon while walking suddenly realized I'd turned my head to look for a bird singing in the roadside and I had almost full range of motion back again. Still hurt to turn my neck but not nearly as much.
Might be coincidental or it might be Iyengar is popular for a reason. Even the woman who introduced me said she disliked it at first but adores it now. Has lots of books for me to read if I'm interested.
One of the many unlooked for side effects of yoga is introducing oneself to the extreme bias of the body. Never understood how crooked I was, even to how much weight I put on each leg, until doing yoga. I'd hoped consistent practice would help to make me more even-handed or footed, but although I think it has helped, it hasn't cured. Perhaps this form of yoga will help.
This is all part of me saying Yes to things rather than no. More on that in another post.
Friday, June 8, 2018
post 34 of 92
Posts are getting further and further apart. So much for a few minutes daily to forge new good habits.
Since writing I have taken part in my second ever group exhibition (the first one over 40 years ago!). I sold 3 drawings and one painting - which almost makes me break even financially. But money making has never been the point. Although I must say selling anything I've created has never happened before. I've bartered, traded and given away but never sold. So that was a new feeling.
Another new feeling was winning an award for one of my drawings. I didn't attend the opening night (hundreds of people in a small noisy venue - my idea of crazy) and although a friend accepted the award on my behalf she didn't remember for which drawing. Understandable as only seconds before she'd won an award for one of her paintings, had just stepped off the stage and then had to return to get mine. Slightly giddy I suspect. Kind of a big deal as our little pop up gallery won two of the 9 awards on offer.
When I heard about it I was happier than I have been in a long time. Couldn't stop grinning. And even while I floated around the house showing lots of teeth, I was aware how fleeting this feeling was so tried to extract squeeze suck every ounce of joy from it.
Another friend had a showing at the Uki Post Office (Featured Artist). She asked for input from friends. What phrases, words, sayings had special meanings for them. She would take those and match them with one of her paintings. I submitted Gratitude and Trust. She used Gratitude. But there was another saying, which has been helpful throughout my life; through good and bad, through opportunity and disaster. This Too Shall Pass.
So it was with the joy of winning and selling. Oh, I lived that feeling, fleeting as it was. It is unbecoming to brag but golly gee it was nice.
Since writing I have taken part in my second ever group exhibition (the first one over 40 years ago!). I sold 3 drawings and one painting - which almost makes me break even financially. But money making has never been the point. Although I must say selling anything I've created has never happened before. I've bartered, traded and given away but never sold. So that was a new feeling.
Another new feeling was winning an award for one of my drawings. I didn't attend the opening night (hundreds of people in a small noisy venue - my idea of crazy) and although a friend accepted the award on my behalf she didn't remember for which drawing. Understandable as only seconds before she'd won an award for one of her paintings, had just stepped off the stage and then had to return to get mine. Slightly giddy I suspect. Kind of a big deal as our little pop up gallery won two of the 9 awards on offer.
When I heard about it I was happier than I have been in a long time. Couldn't stop grinning. And even while I floated around the house showing lots of teeth, I was aware how fleeting this feeling was so tried to extract squeeze suck every ounce of joy from it.
Another friend had a showing at the Uki Post Office (Featured Artist). She asked for input from friends. What phrases, words, sayings had special meanings for them. She would take those and match them with one of her paintings. I submitted Gratitude and Trust. She used Gratitude. But there was another saying, which has been helpful throughout my life; through good and bad, through opportunity and disaster. This Too Shall Pass.
So it was with the joy of winning and selling. Oh, I lived that feeling, fleeting as it was. It is unbecoming to brag but golly gee it was nice.
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