Give me a Sunny Day, and thankfully there are many of
those and I say, you just can’t keep a good Woman down.
As I have been saying
we all carry our shells (baggage) around with us. This autumn I realized mine again needed to be lightened.
As we all do, I seem to have picked up a lot of junk recently
and was carrying it around with me. No wonder I felt loaded down.
My thinking is,
that it’s always a good idea to drop a bunch of this rubbish off as soon as you can
after you realize it is happening.
You’d laugh if you saw my recent forays into
Luggage buying. I seemed to be doing something I hadn’t done in a really long time, getting ready to take off at the drop of a hat. However, after (literally) lugging around
bags on two trips away this year, nothing seems light enough, so in this area of my life, I am
still shopping around.
When I was younger all it took was a good idea for a
get away and I was calculating how long it would take me to pack, get to the
bank and get ready to go, go, go. At least in my mind, taking off was a
prescription for fun. In many ways it still is.
However, like everybody else, schedules and obligations
to others, and of course, the costs of things, pulls me back down to earth. This
means I end up making a plan for the next available time when I can ‘run off’
and have a bit of time away from my ‘real life’. The Wish List has therefore become a regular fixture in
my life.
The ongoing Wish List is actually kind of nice for Keeping the Dream Alive and makes for always having
something to look forward to. In this I am luckier than a lot of people and
though I am happy and grateful, I still have many things that I have to do
before I try and go away.
I can’t understand how Life, no matter how you try to
simplify it, always has periods that are overloaded with activities chock a
block and overlapping for the same week or often even the same day. Try as I
might, even if I can schedule my time to spread things out a bit, getting
together with other people takes me back right away to meet them on their
overloaded weekends.
But the Sun is out again and I spend my time humming
away and thinking about the (I now realize) old song – Walking on Sunshine* by
Katrina and the Waves from 1983. I thought this was known everywhere (and
apparently it was reissued in the U.S. and became a hit) but apparently it’s a
Canadian light rock/pop thingy. No matter, I found it or it found me.
It gives me something to bounce around to as I walk
down the street, enjoying the day even more because I can ignore that the
weather is colder when I’m enjoying the sun and the brighter light and another
nice day…with a really super busy weekend ahead.
We all need to make our own kind of music, live our own
special lives and train ourselves to appreciate the miracle and wonder of it
all.
It’s not just what gets you through the night that’s
important, it’s how you decide to live your days. Walking on Sunshine sure
helps brighten things up.
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