Calm for Mind, Body and Soul

Welcome to the speed bump of the week. I hope you all are feeling extra rested and productive after coming off of a long weekend. If you are, you’re strides ahead of where I started this week. Fortunately, I quickly caught up. Funny how those long weekends work. We await them with such anxiety only to have them come and go in the blink of an eye.

This past Monday, my son inspired this week’s blog. Sunday night, I fell asleep just glad to know I didn’t have to go to the day job on Monday. Granted, I’d be writing when he was asleep (which isn’t much these days) and that surely is work but it’s a different type of work that sort of feeds my mind, body and soul even as I do it. What I wasn’t expecting was a 4:30 a.m. wake up call to find my baby boy completely soaked by his now destroyed diaper. It wasn’t a poopie one at least (that came later and will be a story for another day), but with all the stuffing that came out of that diaper, a shower was a must. Quite frankly, I’m not sure how all this happened. It was like he became Niagara Falls in the middle of the night. An hour, one bottle and a nice clean baby later, I headed out for an early morning walk—the only kind you really can do right now as I live in the desert. That’s when the magic began.

The sun hadn’t risen completely yet so shocking shades of pink and orange painted the sky.  Hardly a sound except for a few early riser birds and bees. Clouds littered the sky, which is an unusual sight here as the sky is usually a bright, clear blue. Quite simply, the morning walk was beautiful and mesmerizing. It was an instant relaxant after our crazy morning: calm for our mind, body and soul. It quickly turned a very frustrating and tiring situation into a positive one. I was actually glad to be up and about so early in the day.

A few hours later, I sat in a café, drinking some earl grey and listening to Bob Marley. It was a might productive day. Hope the rest of your week turns out the same. Happy Writing!

Filed under: Emotions, Toni Kelly, What A Writer Needs, Writer's Life