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April 2, 2012
I am blessed with the knowledge each day that happiness is my choice. I look around me and see joy in so many things and so many aspects of my life. Life is good… And I am blessed. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: Harrier Hawk at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
March 28, 2012
After 11 weeks in some sort of a cast on my right foot, I am finally free. Free!
What a relief… But now the work begins. I got the okay to not sue my air cast any longer on Monday and yesterday I jumped right into PT. I’m done with laying and sitting around and ready to be outdoors walking and enjoying Mother Nature.
Right before I fell, I had been walking 3 – 4 days a week, mostly on the trails at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, and I am itching to get back on those trails.
Years ago I walked 4 – 5 days week, when my daughter was young and it was so healing for me: body, mind and soul. I was just starting to feel the endorphins kick in after about 3 – 4 weeks of walking when I fell.
My physical therapist asked what my goals were yesterday and I told her walking. As we talked more, I explained to her that I have a dream in the back of my mind that I would like to see come to fruition in the next couple of years and that is to walk The Camino.
I explained that I had recently watched The Way, and it renewed my desire to make the trek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f4f_CzD5-oOne day at a time for now… slowly, steadily building up strength, flexibility, balance and agility. Walking The Camino is no walk in the park, it is in fact a pilgrimage or spiritual adventure, depending on your religious views or lack there of.
I can honestly say now that I am starting to build up my strength again, the past 11 weeks were truly a very difficult time in my life. I am grateful to have had a really good orthopedic doctor who immediately recognized my injury as a Lisfranc sprain. it’s a complicated injury, that will takes weeks of PT to finish my recovery.
And then… Well, there’s trails at Parker River, Maudslay and elsewhere where I can make a type of daily pilgrimage to feed my body, mind and soul with the healing, loving nature of the Mother.
And so… the Mid-Life Crisis Adventure continues…
(Photo: Hellcat Swamp Trail ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
March 23, 2012
When we give our heart to someone, we never expect it to get trounced on.
Marianne Williamson says in A Return To Love:
“Love is a participatory emotion.”
It takes two people to participate however… and if one isn’t showing up in that relationship… Well, it wasn’t love to begin with, was it?
(Photo: Osprey’s Nesting at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
Trees purify the air; they also purify the mind . . . if you want to save your world, you must save the trees. – The Trees of Endor, J.R.R. Tolkien
(Photo: Scrub Pine at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
I am blessed with the knowledge each day, that my life is filled with love; that I have great love in my life. Like the new growth on trees in Spring, I am abundant in my love and in my life. I bless the love and the loved ones I have in my life, today and everyday.” – Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: Spring Buds at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
March 21, 2012
“Today, I recognize that there are no coincidences. Everything that happens is for a reason, everyone whom I meet is an assignment. I welcome the opportunities that arise for growth and further understanding.” – Pamela J. Leavey
(Photo: Snowy Owl at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge ~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)
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