It would be wonderful if we could meet up for a vermut today. For one thing the weather is beautiful. It is sunny and warm and the chilly wind has gone at last.
I could suggest a cafe in the Porxada but it is always quite busy there and to be honest today I would like some peace and quiet. This morning as I passed through the square there were hordes of children and inside the old market were rows and rows of tables with chess boards on top. A chess tournament was about to get going but I couldn’t stop to see what happened next.
I’d love to sit and have a relaxed drink in the sunshine but today I think I would let you do the talking. I am a bit tired – not physically but something about this Spring is wearying me. My head is full of questions and problems and although my brain tries to find solutions and to make plans for the future somehow the next day the same old things go round and round. I’m on a merry go round and can’t get off yet.
I’ve been thinking about acupuncture recently and how much I miss it. It was good to have a break – almost two years!!! – but now I want to get started again. I find myself thinking about the Five Elements and trying to make sense of what is happening in my life by using them as a guide.
For example, it is Spring and this is the time for making plans and thinking about the future. What are your objectives in the next week – month – year? The organ associated with this is the Liver and this energy is very powerful – it is what makes life pulse with expectation and hope. It is what helps us grow and change and keep flexible in our lives.
But, I seem a little stuck this Spring. There are plans and there are hopes and dreams but I don’t know how to bring them into reality. I don’t know which direction to take. I am dithering and swithering.
I swing between optimism and bleakness. It’s not very comfortable! Yesterday I stuck some needles in the Liver points so we will see what happens next.
So, I will continue to walk the path by the river looking at the little plants that grow in this unwelcoming environment, listen to the birds as they get things together for nest building and mating, continue going to the gym so that my energy doesn’t stagnate totally and just Hope and Trust.
I think Bodhi Chicklet has a bottle of vodka open so do pop over there and see what she is doing.
She’s always good for a laugh as well which is more than I can say for myself these days!
Oh my dear, I am in the same mood, you knows! But spring open doors, lights and hopes… We need only a little of the patience the winter left for us! XXXX
Sometimes patience is the answer, as pep says, though I find I am not so good at that…..hope the needles work for you……..
I feel very like that. Definitely at a crossroads, if I can only get over the massive hurdle in front of me, then it would be easier. But, will I ever, ever do it?
If we were meeting for a glass of vermut today (did I say just ONE?!) I would want to hear more about acupuncture. My son and I go for seasonal tuneups 4 times a year – actually he goes every six weeks during the fall and winter months. The liver, huh? Something tells me my liver would not be too happy to be shaking hands with that vermut! But then again, I don’t want to throw it into withdrawl either! What element is associated with the liver? Is there any way you can write an equivalency exam to practice in Spain? I am guessing it would be in the Catalan language…
I, too, would seek out a quiet space today, away from the maddening crowd.
So many of us at a crossroads in our life.. what to do? How do I get unstuck this spring? What will the future hold? What does my liver say…and can I hear it? Maybe I should just just tune in and listen to the sounds of the spring – what are the swallows saying? Time to build a nest – but who will be in it????
Spring and autumn are both hard. They are times of change and uncertainty. Many suicides happen at these times, too. It is important to look ahead to the glorious summer which is coming, the grand return of the sun, of warmth and joy.
Gosh, I wonder about the liver. Where are those acupuncture points? Can we do this stuff for ourselves…?