It’s pretty late in the day now (not day at all now) and honestly I don’t really want to write this post now. I’m tired, it’s late, I’d rather not bother. But if I leave it until tomorrow, well that doesn’t seem right at all and if I don’t do it today then I will be failing my own rules and letting myself off the hook and probably the whole thing will go down hill from there.
We went to look at a beach today. When I say look, that’s pretty much what we did, it was gray, cloudy and extremely windy, there was even a bit of rain too when we ate our sandwiches in the car. We went to Sand Bay in Somerset and had a look at the National Trust car park at Sand Point. Lovely place if you want to do some serious walking and are wearing appropriate footwear. I don’t have the energy or the footwear, which is a shame. Anyway I still enjoyed our mini adventure even if it did cause me to reminisce about Mediterranean beaches in the summer. When I got back to the cottage, the sun was shining so after a very short rest, I did my painting outside. Hence I was late doing my Headspace meditation and late eating dinner, extremely late writing morning pages (evening pages today), and now late writing today’s blog.
I had some thoughts about talking some more about ME/cfs and explaining it and linking to some information and charities. I seem to talk about it a lot, which was not my intention, but it is part of my daily experience, so it creeps into the writing. I’m going to leave that for another day though.
My painting today started with green paint, I mixed different greens, some turquoise and white together to make different shades and colours. I used a small flat brush in small brush strokes. It took me quite a long time to complete the page. I wanted to use blue on the other page, I used all the shades of blue paint plus black and white. This time I used a larger brush to paint vertical stripes of different shades and tones of blue. I guess the tranquil tones may have come from being outside in nature today and painting under a mostly blue sky.
We went to look at a beach today. When I say look, that’s pretty much what we did, it was gray, cloudy and extremely windy, there was even a bit of rain too when we ate our sandwiches in the car. We went to Sand Bay in Somerset and had a look at the National Trust car park at Sand Point. Lovely place if you want to do some serious walking and are wearing appropriate footwear. I don’t have the energy or the footwear, which is a shame. Anyway I still enjoyed our mini adventure even if it did cause me to reminisce about Mediterranean beaches in the summer. When I got back to the cottage, the sun was shining so after a very short rest, I did my painting outside. Hence I was late doing my Headspace meditation and late eating dinner, extremely late writing morning pages (evening pages today), and now late writing today’s blog.
I had some thoughts about talking some more about ME/cfs and explaining it and linking to some information and charities. I seem to talk about it a lot, which was not my intention, but it is part of my daily experience, so it creeps into the writing. I’m going to leave that for another day though.
My painting today started with green paint, I mixed different greens, some turquoise and white together to make different shades and colours. I used a small flat brush in small brush strokes. It took me quite a long time to complete the page. I wanted to use blue on the other page, I used all the shades of blue paint plus black and white. This time I used a larger brush to paint vertical stripes of different shades and tones of blue. I guess the tranquil tones may have come from being outside in nature today and painting under a mostly blue sky.
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| I might swap this for a better photo tomorrow, although it captures the moment quite well. |
My journaling/journalling (choose your preferred spelling) was a bit disjointed again, this time interrupted by the need to make and eat food, this is the sort of mini disaster that happens when out of my routine. I guess my writing tonight was a bit like this blog post, a bit of a jumble of ideas and thoughts as my writing struggled to keep up with the randomness of my thoughts and the fact that I seemed to forget them as quickly as they came to me if I failed to write them quick enough. Still I think I managed a few moments of insightfulness amongst the jumble. Will try again tomorrow.
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