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The Wandering Hermit: How’s Everybody Doin’ Today? Wanna Hear About My Lungs?

   2 July 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: How’s Everybody Doin’ Today? Wanna Hear About My Lungs?

One of my favorite concepts is having the confidence to walk into a room like you own everything.  Of course, I never quite do have that level of confidence, but I think I’ve figured out a way to fake it, and faking it is nearly as good it most cases.  Recently, whenever I’ve been around other people I like to walk in like I’m the district manager; I’m not doing a walk through this week, but I am just seeing how everyone is doing.  What is surprising is how well even that level of confidence works.

I need to keep working on breathing.  I am MILES from where I started, but I do wish I could breath even more deeply.  I want to just fill those lungs up fully and enjoy the full capacity of respiration that I have lacked for so long.  Maybe it’ll take time.  Maybe it will never happen, but I’m trying.  I don’t know what would help other than what I’m already doing.  I’m willing to try anything.

[Walk #109]

Daily Log: 2 July 2024

   2 July 2024  Leave a Comment on Daily Log: 2 July 2024

Weight: 270.0 lb/122.47 kg

Exercise: 2.34 mile/3.77 km walk (5:07am–5:55am, 🌬️79ºF/26ºC); .51 mile/.82 km walk (7:55pm–8:08pm, 🌬️96ºF/26ºC) (2.85 miles total)

Mood: Excellent

Food: TBD calories

  • butterscotch iced coffee
  • French bread, mustard
  • russet potatoes, broccoli, jalapeños

The Wandering Hermit: Just Before the Sky Catches Fire

   28 June 2024  Leave a Comment on The Wandering Hermit: Just Before the Sky Catches Fire

I’m feeling a little bit under the weather, but I am just not interested in excuses.  Of course, if I end up being sick I’ll have to act accordingly.  There’s no point in pushing myself when it would be harmful to do so.  This morning was a nice walk though, even though I wasn’t feeling awesome.

I’ve been oscillating between feeling unrealistically optimistic and feeling the whole weight of the world pushing down own me.  Of course, my reality is probably best described somewhere in the middle, but try telling my brain that!  I’d prefer to not worry much about things; I’d love to dwell in the feeling of walking on a cloudy morning just before sunrise when everything is so dark, but then the sky starts to catch fire, burning for a few minutes until you realize how blue and illuminated everything is and you don’t remember it happening because you were too distracted by the colors of the sky.  Why can’t we live in those feelings?

[Walk #104]