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Food as fuel was last week. Thinking about the way I eat, what I eat and why triggered a lot of feelings and inner conflicts I didn’t realise I had. I’m very grateful for the growth opportunity, but I’ll talk more about it later. I’m not sure if I’m really at a place of sharing with those feelings.

So, in honouring my need to rest for a little while, I spent all of today, April 24th, 2011 in bed. I woke up around 7 am, and I just didn’t feel ready to get out of bed. It wasn’t even an issue of laziness or anything like that. I just wasn’t ready, and I don’t currently have any massive, pressing deadlines to deal with. So I kept sleeping.

I woke up again at 11 and Skype’d with my BFF.

Then I went on Facebook.

And went back to sleep.

Woke up again and made some tea.

Napped a little more.

Realised I hadn’t showered yet.

Rolled over and went back to sleep anyway.

Woke up and went for a 2 hours walk as the sun hung low and then slipped away for the night.

Came back home and wrote this.

I can’t remember the last time I took an entire day to relax, rest, rejuvenate and prepare for the week ahead and felt no guilt whatsoever about enjoying a quiet day and the warmth of having a roof over my head and a soft pillow to place my head.

This had has been glorious.

I think I might spend more Sundays luxuriating in gratitude.

Much love,

A.Y. Daring