How to destress?
In the midst of RFP writing madness at work and having to renew my unscannable fingerprints for updated adoption paperwork, I have had to make tremendous efforts not to stress out during my supposedly long summer weekends about a major grant deadline (worth over $7M ) dangling in the back of my mind or the fact that in an era of high technology, why isn't U.S. Immigration/Department of Homeland Security able to figure out a less complicated way to scan fingerprints for those like myself? As for the major deadline which creeps into my not-so-dreamy dreams, I keep telling myself, I am thankful to have a job. And the fingerprints? It's just failed fingerprints. It's not years and years of failed hormone/IVF treatments. I can get over it, just part of the adoption process.
Deep inhale. Slow exhale.
I popped in my Body & Soul yoga dvd mid-morning for long-awaited rejuvenation. Sadly, I'm not as disciplined as I'd like to be when it comes to yoga and meditation. It's in times of extreme high stress that I attempt to become more disciplined, which usually means I need soothing energy . . . badly.
August is always a bit of a rough month. While birthday glow surrounds me, so does the anticipation of my Dad's death anniversary. At the end of the month, he will have been dead for three years.
Deep inhale. Slow exhale.
And when I'm dead, will any major work deadline or the fact that I have no fingerprints really matter? Certainly not. What will have mattered is Friday afternoon coffee, triple layer chocolate cake and oreo mousse on my day off with my childhood friend E. and goddaughter D.; weekend pool time and overnight with my nephews, J. & S.; family smokeout and August birthday celebrations; Monday lunch date and stroll in the park with my old highschool friend, I.; unexpected romantic gestures like song lyrics posted on fb with which A. glitzes me.
Deep inhale. Slow exhale.
Bendita Tu Luz by Manรก
Blessed be the light
Blessed be the coincidence
Blessed be the clock,
which took us there at the nick of time
Blessed be your presence
Blessed be God for putting us in each other’s way
blessed be your light
like crystal's sun catcher
that sways in my heart's window
home is where your star meets mine
and we trip the light fantastic
(. . . waiting for the stars to align)
