Mono Monday work rest play

Monday’s are usually a day of work rest and play!!

Up and getting the kids ready for school after a busy weekend is always quite tough! But we made it and I headed into work.

Afterwards was dropping my daughter to gymnastics and then my son needed his fluenze and onto his drum lesson.

Having been away for a week and then having a gala means he hasn’t really practiced his drums but he wanted a lesson anyway! I decided to go for a run whilst he had his lesson - it was dark and very cold but very enjoyable!

After my day long meditation I wanted to try really being present for my run - that May sounds very strange but often I have headphones on and am just listening to that. So in the dark tonight I ran and I tried to just run, to feel the movements and take everything in. When doing so it really changes your experience.

The Journey by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice-
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy

was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do-
determined to save
the only life you could save.