nostalgia for zen morning laughs and lilacs now

[bluegreen17]

sunny and i enjoyed the birds' morning chorus. i hardly slept last night,but hearing the birds and being awake,i started feeling nostalgic for my college days when i got up at 5 am and met some friends for a 'zen morning laugh' (which i found in a book called something like 'ways to get high without drugs') and a run and then in the muggy mornings of summer at home by myself before i went to work at my department store job. thinking of those days,my life was packed with life and it starts to make me sad and miss that. so i decided to get out of bed and try to enjoy my life as it is today rather than lie in bed and be sad. if i can,anyway.

today i'm hoping it will clear up after two days of rain so i can go for another lilac walk. i hope they are still there. earlier in the week,i went for a walk on two days and i saw them but couldn't smell them. i'd also like to do a load of laundry,because the only clean underwear i have is the smaller size from when i was smaller,and that ain't too comfy!

last night when i couldn't sleep i started reading a book by david liss called 'the twelfth enchantment' which sounded good from reviews i've read. i couldn't get into it at first,but then i started reading in the middle,got into it,and now i've gone back to the beginning. and now i'm looking forward to devouring the rest of it.

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[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

I've only gone voluntarily for a run once in my life. I pulled a muscle that hurt me for months, and that was that. Good excuse, huh?

I like the thought of lilac walks! Maybe there are things around my neighborhood I should start walking to see.

[bluegreen17]

running can actually be pretty tough on the body. for a while, i did two and a half miles a day,but it was walk and run because rarely did i have the stamina for the whole way. now that i know more about thyroid and adrenal,i can kind of see why i wasn't much of an endurance runner,but i wasn't competitive anyway. it gave me a toned body and some of those nice chemicals you can get. i think walking is pretty perfect for a lot of people though. i missed my lilac walk today because as i finally got off the couch,it started to pour,so i am hoping there are lilacs left tomorrow to smell. at least i'm halfway done some laundry,so at least the whole day isn't a bust,as it so often is!