I’m starting with the end of the day because after a hard 11 miles, we are staying at this very interesting little inn. Gurnards Inn. It is a 300 year old coaching inn in this tiny village, Treen. And old mining village from the 1800s that has a few homes and farms now. But this …
Continue reading Astounding beauty hard to describe. (Day 5)
Newquay to Perranporth. Last night we arrived in Newquay just before dinner time. It is an odd town, full of arcades, punks and surfers. Felt a little rough as we wandered around, and it must have been because Ric doesn’t usually take notice of that sort of thing. However, the coastline here is breathtaking so …
Continue reading Mindset and a long walk on the beach. (Day 1 SWCP)
C.S. Lewis said that making progress might mean making a u-turn because you’re on the wrong path and you have walk back to the right road. Siri often says to me “make a legal u-turn” when I don’t want to. It annoys the hell out of me. Sometimes I'm taking a detour on purpose, and …
Continue reading Maybe it is just the wrong road. Turn the F around!
I am a results kind of person. My husband even more so. We are get shit done people. And so life gets super hard when getting shit done gets complicated, or we are forced to recognize that there are actually things in life that are not "fixable." Oh, the agony! We may take it to …
A few months ago a favorite yoga teacher told me about Brene Brown's latest book Rising Strong. I have been reading and re-reading passages in the book, and trying to integrate them. There's so much in there that it's hard to take it in. But one piece of it (right now) has kept me thinking. …
Sometimes I like to play a game with myself. For a few days I will make it a point that everywhere I go, into each store, each person I come in contact with I will pay attention to and make a meaningful comment to them. At the grocery, or Target, or a restaurant, or wherever, …
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