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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This has been a tough week. Covid fatigue is one thing. Anxiety about the elections another...those feelings I’ve been dealing with fine, I thought. After flipping back and forth between the town halls and such different visions of what represents America and who we are, and who we want to be, left me reeling. I don’t watch the news so am pretty insular to such a stark difference. It left me numb And unmotivated to do much... my screen time is up as I surf YouTube for something, anything to lift my spirits ... Well not just anything as cute puppy and adorable kittens feel too immature and wasted. I need knowledge, I need to learn something, I need to feel that somehow in the midst of all the divisiveness in the country knowledge is power and I can take back mine some how. So tiptoeing past TikTok, no politics, and no conspiracy theories is not necessarily an easy journey. A crystal in my window gave me this prism on the wall. The colors danced and shimmered and got lighter and brighter from moment to moment. It gave me hope that the dark cloud i felt settling over me might be held at bay somehow. If the smallest bit of light can change a dull flat empty white space to a reminder of joy, and color however brief the encounter, then maybe there can be some sort of symbiotic energy transfer to my soul. Then i realized I have a choice each day to decide if I want to carry forth the lasting shimmer of possibility, or the blank emptiness of the white void. That choice is mine to make, and is the start of taking back my power.
October 27, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This week I thought I'd concentrate on something positive for a change! At the end of December I decided to do a 6 week get fit, very do-able, workout from Les Mills, which I have an online subscription to. I love those Kiwis - They got me through the first year of the pandemic, but I hadn't worked out for most of the fall and winter. This particular program is bodyweight only. You need no equipment. And I am in a good sweat after twenty minutes of some of this stuff that isn't even the cardio workouts. The workouts are also targeted and short, which is nice. But I wanted to mix up the cardio from the offerings because I missed spin classes. So I reinstated my membership to Fulgaz so I could ride the spin bike with some interesting scenery. The rides are all over the world, and they're not virtual, they are REAL videos that different folks have recorded. The app is made for smart trainers, and I have a spin bike, but I put speed and cadence sensors on the spin bike and I'm getting it to work, meaning the video becomes reactive to your pace and effort - video speeds up as you speed up, stops when you stop, etc. It's really cool. My first ride was through the south of France, and I found it so beautiful I stayed on the bike for an hour. I can't wait to decide what to ride today. And I have NEVER felt that about working out. There! I did it. I journaled something positive in the middle of this shit show of loss and death and disease and democratic devolution. (oops. I just can't help myself, I guess)
January 27, 2022