Struggled with the heat the last few days - lots of drinking water and sleeping. It took over a day and a half for my brain to stop generating ideas for work. There's going to be a load of e-mails to read when I log on tomorrow - all from myself.
Talk a two hour walk this evening when it was slightly cooler. I'm always refocused and refreshed after my walks, it's like "dusting for the mind" - all the clutter gets cleared out. I'm regretful I lost the self-care discipline when I returned to work (it's not that I don't self-care - it's that I don't do enough of the exercise and self-reflection). Standing in the middle of woodland with nothing but birds and the occasional squirrel (or brave hare) for company is the best therapy I could have.
Clocked someone with the hidden disabilities lanyard behind the counter at my local. Not sure if she saw my wristband but it's nice to see this idea being supported in my sleepy village.
Speaking of my sleepy village I've always wrestled with whether or not moving to one was the right idea. I do miss cities but then on my walk today, looking across nothing but green fields and blue skies surrounded by quiet (apart from a very vocal nature!), I figured to have all that on my doorstep is worth way more than being in the center of things and people just for the sake of it.
Finding less time to spend on the forum. Perhaps it's a work thing - but I find I need more and more time to decompress. Some of this is information overload - things come to the fore and I'm not consciously thinking about them. They just kind of "pop in there" - what I do know is that the more stuff I give it (or the more stuff I'm exposed to where I've got some kind of agency) the more some part of me somewhere will be happily processing away at it until a "thing" is generated.
