Stormy Day
It was a
gloriously stormy day. The rain had given up falling in sheets and was
conglomerating in billowy masses the size of small buildings. Blown into
visible, liquid clouds that raced past, the watery gusts buffeted Lydia as she
strode against the current and towards her destination. Lydia’s teeth chattered
and she relaxed, deliberately letting go
of the tension in her shoulders, her neck, and her clenched jaw. The trick to
this kind of wet cold was not to fight it, but to relax into it while
maintaining forward momentum. Lydia was soaked to the skin and mildly
hypothermic, but she knew she wasn’t really in danger. Her destination was only
a brisk ten-minute walk away and shivering was painful and undignified. She
didn’t need to shiver, and so she suppressed it like an inopportune yawn. Lydia
relaxed, leaned into the wind, and imagined she was a storybook hero prevailing
against great challenges.
At work,
Lydia’s boss scowled and muttered a nasty comment about her bedraggled
appearance. Lydia just smiled and continued to imagine she was a hero. Her boss,
she decided, was an evil sorcerer. The trick was to not fight the sorcerer’s
spells, but to relax into them while maintaining forward momentum.
Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you have a marvelous week!
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