This morning after I did a little Pilate's mixed with a little light yoga I decided to see if I could stand on my head. Not just stand on my head where I'm leaned up against the wall but stand on my head in the middle of my room. I put my head on the ground, carefully put my knees on my elbows and then straightened my legs up in the air.
I stood on my head!
I didn't even know I could do that!
To all you coordinated people out there this is no big deal, but to me, a person who has always felt like my body and brain connection wasn't so strong....this was an exciting accomplishment.
To have my day start with such a surprising stupendous athletic feat set the tone for the rest of my day. I was in the shower singing a song I wrote over a year ago. I love this song a lot. I've never sung it for anyone. When I wrote it I couldn't even hit the notes I was hearing in my head but now I can. So as I was belting it out while washing my hair. I felt marvelous. I felt so marvelous that when I came to the end of that song I heard hints of another song playing in my head. I listened and started singing that one and sang a whole new song. How is it that when these bursts of creativity come through me it feels so good emotionally, physically, even spiritually?
Sure, most of my songs are all little orphans right now with no one but me to hear them, no one to love them. I have faith that they won't always be orphans.
The perfection of the day just continued. My sister in law just had her 5th baby so I wanted to have her other kids over so she could enjoy her beautiful baby boy. He's not just beautiful because all babies are beautiful,
he is beautiful because he really is beautiful!
After lunch at "Ric Donald's" we went to one of my favorite parks. The sun was the perfect amount of sunny. The sky was the perfect shade of blue. The clouds were the perfect shape of fluffy. The breeze was the perfect amount of cool. Angel faces were smiling back at me. We climbed and jumped and hiked and saw butterflies.
And to top off the perfection we ate galaxy frozen custard.
These are the days I want to remember. I hope my kids will too. I sure don't have very many memories of when I was 4 or 3 or 2 so I doubt any of these little angels will even remember this perfect day. I will though. And I will write down the other parts of my perfect day in my journal......because I love to feel like I am capturing joy......in some form or another.
when I was little my brother and I used to watch cartoons standing on our head with a pillow -- we would go for an hour or so. Now I do it for a second and I have a headache and I think my head shifted shapes because it doesn't seem flat anymore ;) Andrea and I want on that hike we did with yw yesterday by the temple and the fall leaves are beautiful -
ReplyDeleteYou deserve a day like this! I'm happy for you! And the metaphor for your songs being orphans has me laughing out loud. I want to love them. Will you send me your demo CD??? xo
ReplyDeleteI will send you one for sure sweet Keddington! I am waiting for the demos with my picture to be ready, should be this week or next. I want you to love them! The demo only has 5 songs and I've written like 40 so I must be patient in getting them recorded and loved, poor things.
ReplyDeleteJenn, thank you for reminding me of that hike.I must take my kids before it's too late! I think that's amazing you used to stand on your head for an hour!!! Don't be doing that now... your head needs more time to recover :)
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