Yesterday my day was spent enjoying local food with friends. I find a mystery in friendship, and sometimes am in awe at the complete differences in mine. It is my believe that friendships entail a variety of connections. For example, I went to the farmer's market in the morning to enjoy the simplicity and wonder of local food with an older lady from church. If I was to list my friends, I'm fairly certain I wouldn't place her on the list. We had a lovely time, and it was enjoyable to see the market through her first time eyes. Today she brought me parsley she grew (looks better than mine!) in appreciation. It made me think that in many ways she is a friend. In the evening a closer group of friends and I went to the Corner Table and enjoyed an extravagant five course meal of local, organic food accompanied by a wine with every course. We spent over three hours eating and conversing. Although the food was absolutely fabulous, it was the time spent with friends that made it special. While I consider the women I had dinner with close friends, I realize all the women I shared local food with yesterday are friends. Friends who in different capacities allow my to thrive and live well.
Today I went back to the interweb to find out what I could post about that would relate to sankalpa . "...Sankalpa has the potential to release tremendous power by clearly defining and focusing on a chosen goal." My chosen goal since May has truly been on being physically active. Since it's cold and miserable out, I've been being active inside instead of outside. December 6th (or something like that) was the last time I ventured outside for physical activity. I, however, have still been going to they gym and focusing on being physically fit (or at least burning enough calories to eat more food). Yesterday I received an early morning text from a friend in God's Country . President Obama was talking about "The President's Challenge" . Today (I tried yesterday and decided to put it off until today... forget out it... let it happen... put it aside... clear my mind of it... all probably sankalpa) I formed a group. The...
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