79/82 degrees this morning. Oddly enough, it almost feel cool. Daylight is getting much shorter, still (at 6:40 a.m.) almost too dark to sit on the patio this morning.
Day 5 after dental surgery. Not doing as well as I expected, to be honest. Still feel a lot of discomfort, which is ok and somewhat expected, but I didn't expect my mouth to still be numb. A little concerned and will call the dentist.
Haven't exercised much since the surgery (I'm concerned about cracking the scab and bleeding starting again), but I still lost almost 4 lbs, I guess because eating is uncomfortable and I don't really feel like eating. However, I hadn't noticed that I ate any less. I'll take it anyway of course! Hope to get back to my bike riding soon.
Felt better yesterday than Saturday. Caught up on some work, did some reading etc.
Out on the patio now, and it still seems relatively cool. I'm sure that will change as the day goes on.
Still listening to "The Willpower Instinct" (I received my copy of the book), and this morning was a discussion on how reminding yourself NOT to do something may just help you do it. Rather than trying not to think about not doing something (such as over eating), the author suggests you "surf" the matter and accept the fact you will have thoughts about it and don't (at least subconsciously) that you are a bad person that you can't not think about it. Obviously the book explains it a lot better than I do!
I learn by explaining something so I may try to explain one small thought each day!
My poem today from "The World Without End is Ending" is "Melancholy". I'm not quite sure why I wrote this, I"m sure it was an assignment. In a way I like it, but I also am a little disturbed by an attitude of distrust or anger at a certain segment of society, since I don't feel like anyone is defined by their stereotype. Perhaps I'll think about this a little, which is one reason for poetry in the first place.
MELANCHOLY
Nothing blossoms
I stare
Half in malice
At their accurate lives
Proper style, proper language
Their ignorant elegance
In the formal accents
A little madness
A southern drawl
Trendy slang nonsense is rewarded
The language alters
Sweet notes
Of sufficient length
Proper words, proper grammar
Visual repetition of an earlier era
But the moment is gone
No rewards
The sky is still cloudless
And the uncomfortable sound
of the ordinary note
and the endless silence
Of a missing song
Continues
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