Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon
The yard! The yard! If Tattoo had been here this winter, he’d have gotten pretty excited about this dreary muddy mess now more visible than not. The mountain of snow over which I could not see as I degaraged my Celica has melted to foothill levels, allowing me sights not seen for two + months. Yippee.
Business meeting this morning and we acknowledged both the new tax burden and our wisdom in saving adequately to deal with it. This transition year into the retired life has had surprises, mostly pleasant ones, but this one caught us up short, at least at first. We have enough money to pay the taxes and still go on with our cruise. I’m glad because I’ve already got that Panama hat picked out.
I’ve entered a new phase of physical activity, one with not only aerobic and resistance work, but also with body movement exercise like the Tai Chi and the Body Flow class at the Y. It feels different, maybe better. The better aspect comes with the more body friendly Tai Chi, yoga and pilates. Aerobic and resistance are necessary to retain muscle mass and heart/circulatory system health, but the others work the body in a way designed to calm, loosen, stretch. The Tai Chi, too, has a strong element, as does yoga, of the Eastern mystical. Yoga as taught here has lost much of that, but the Tai Chi world remains rooted in the ancient Taoist traditions of China.
