Spring Bloodroot Moon
Ah. Just back from Mt. Vernon. Learned some things about traveling now. Now, that is, in the third phase when I’m no longer as resilient as I used to be.
1. Use a cab or public transportation to a location, then walk back. Or, the reverse. Don’t walk both ways, especially on concrete. (An example this trip would have been the Lincoln Monument. I could have walked back and seen the Whitehouse and the Willard on the way home.)
2. If tired, stop. Rest. If hungry, eat. (I have a tendency to want to keep going when I’m moving, wait until meal time if I’ve worked up a hunger.)
3. When wool gathering about enough this or enough that get out and do something. Don’t forget 1 & 2.
4. Take at least one vacation a year where the whole point is to relax. I know this may seem obvious to many of you, perhaps most of you, but I typically have a goal, an intent. This time, for instance, it was immersion in the pre-Raphaelites and learning about how to work with art post-MIA. Did it. But. I kept needing to turn the hamster wheel one more time. Stop that!
5. Vacations are more fun with Kate along. (I knew this one already, but it never hurts to write things down.)
