This has been a good day, start to finish (except of course it’s not over yet). I got up, showered, and did a meditation to help get my mind cleared from the usual barrage of mental gunk that attacks me when I first wake up in the morning. Then it was coffee, light breakfast, then back to work on the book chapter I’ve been writing. I wrote and read and thought, making steady progress for a few hours before breaking in the afternoon to take Jared to work and do my turn around the park.
It was blustery and cold–my usual two sweatshirt attire was barely enough to keep me warm in the part of the walk that skirts the Bay. By the time I’d done the mile and three-quarters, the sun had exited behind the fog and clouds for which the city by the Bay is known. I sat on a bench looking across the water at San Francisco, shrouded in gray fog and mist, the temperature wasn’t supposed to climb out of the 50s today. I reckon I could have sat on that bench for hours, listening to the waves hitting the rocks, watching the amusing antics of the ground squirrels that populate the rocky shoreline all the way around the park. After a time, the sun peeked through the fog and clouds, and for a while I sat and enjoyed that.
Gray, Foggy San Francisco Day
After a time I got up and headed back home, where after spending a little more time working on the chapter, I fixed myself a light dinner and sat and watched a movie on television. Perhaps none of this sounds particularly interesting; but for me it was sweet in its ease and simplicity. I’ve written a great deal in these past 51 blogs about how I sometimes struggle to remain emotionally upbeat through the course of a day. For me to have had a regular, uneventful day during which I’ve felt pretty good for the entire day is something to be truly grateful for.
It’s been quite a journey the past few months and of course there’s plenty more journey ahead–my life is still far from certain in many respects. But I’ll take a day like today and be glad. And for tonight, that’s pretty much all there is to say.
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