03/28/2024
Still in my sleeping bag with the fresh coolness of nature caressing my cheeks, I find myself lucky and fortunate. To awake to such a beautiful understanding of reality as a first thought is more than magical. It painted my smile wide before I had even opened my eyes. And that is how my day started, with a warm thought bubbling the wellness of reality and creating feelings of a wildflower vision. Grinning and feeling internal peace I stretch my arms out of my sleeping bag and flex my toes down, like a cat just waking from a delightful slumber. I blink awake wiping the sandman’s gift from my eyes As I peer out the window towards the mountain range lying east, slumbering under its blanket of snow. I take in the weather report. Today, partly cloudy, chance of rain, or snow, the temperature somewhere close to freezing, and slightly windy at around five miles per hour. All of this and I didn’t even need an actual television or someone else to explain the current forecast to me.
I forgo the coffee and oatmeal and venture down the road to the restroom. My bladder is screaming at me and I need to answer its call. I’ll have breakfast immediately following. Dishes, as per the norm, are non-existent and I already know my day’s magical.
I spent today much like the previous, but add a treat, disc golf. The sun has provided enough energy to remove much of the snow from the course and it looks, from first glance, playable. I give it a go and am not without disappointment. Yes, it was muddy, but I thwarted much of it by playing early, i.e., 9:00 AM. I am grateful for this time as the weather could change tomorrow and dump a foot of snow, not melting for two weeks. Having this understanding only makes it that much easier to provide gratitude. After nine holes my arm is letting me know I haven’t thrown for half a year and need to take it slow. I listen, knowing I can return in the evening if I’m feeling more limber, but for now I should have lunch.
I arrive at the point and am thankful I enjoy peanut butter and jelly so much; I don’t think I could keep a stove lit with this wind. I eat my sandwich as I walk and notice a trio of sea otters frisking about. I contemplate if they’ll let me close enough for a picture then decide the reward is worth the risk. I’m not wanting to disturb them, but they are in the harbor and displaying signs resembling courage, i.e., two boat workers have walked by them and they didn’t swim away. How lucky I am. Walking along the dock, crab boats on both sides, I can hear the playful squeals and splashing joy. I slowly move towards the aft of a rather large boat and peek around the corner. They’re three! I make eye contact with one and instinctively say “Salome” in my mind. The otter seemed to smile at me as if it knew and returned to playing. I took a few more tentative steps towards the blue water and found surprise as they meandered right up beside me. Ten minutes later I decide it’s time to say goodbye. I’ve appreciated them and now would like to give them space. As I turn around the name of a boat catches my eye. It says, “Time Bandit” and it has a skull and crossbones. I know this boat, it’s from the hit discovery show “Deadliest Catch”. I snap a picture acknowledging my luck and giving thanks before departing the docks entirely.
Now, it’s board game thirty. I go to my brothers and bring Elder Sign. It appears fairly simple and we should be able to learn it in a couple hours. This means we will probably run through the setup and rule book and actually begin the game tomorrow. Sure enough, this is what happens, only we throw dinner in the mix. We leave the game set up for tomorrow and I bid him farewell shortly after completing the rules. I want to catch the sunset.
I spend the last hour of my evening watching the sun sink below the edge of vision and go to try a new sleep spot. I’ll know tomorrow if I made a good choice.
“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination” ~Ralph Marston
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