It is market day and it is snowing
Hands
My hands are still painful and it’s not easy to do the simplest of tasks. I have to be aware all the time of what I am doing – which hand to use to lift the kettle, which hand cannot grasp a mug, which hand can go in my pocket to find the housekeys, which hand finds it impossible to get small coins out of my purse. I am going slower, noticing and appreciating my hands and fingers and thanking them as they find new ways to do things
Inspiration
Bodhi Chicklet whose lovely blog inspires me every time I visit, suggested I look at Lifeunity a blog where they are doing a week long mindfullness practice on Hands. The idea is to become aware of and start to truly appreciate your hands. From there I followed a trail to the Domestic Yogi who wrote a really interesting post about why we need to activate the energy in our hands. “The hands and feet are the key to turning on the radiant energy current within.”
Dogs
Today is the dia de candelles, if you go to mass, you will be given special candles, they are very thin and colourful, and they are to protect the house in case of storms. A special day in the Catholic calander! You also are lighting candles, unconsciously in tune with the Catalans around you!
Hope your hands get better fast. You got more snow than we did!
Snowing in Spain? The world really is upside down, isn’t it? And all along I thought it was just me…Happy Candlemas.
Hey that’s the same internet petshop I used to buy food for my dog Rex (they actually sent ours on from Germany). Small world.
Do your dogs like to eat snow? Rex loved the stuff, catching snowballs was her thing as well.
What a lovely candle reading, reminds me a little of the Robert Frost poem, The Road Not Taken (thank you Mr Sime). But your path ahead sounds much more open and it’s true, there is no rush.
It is good to appreciate hands – they do so much and it’s easy to take them for granted.
Lovely blog today with so much in it!
Snowing? So that’s where our snow went. To your place.