Take a Hike, Doc!
I am literally going to go on a hike.
Welcome to Issue #1 of Rent Free In My Mind
I have a lot of ideas of what this newsletter is going to be about, but I am still fine-tuning them in my mind… but the first month or so will help me figure out what feels right and what I’ll share (and how).
Suffice it to say that we (me, you, and everyone else) will be subject to the stuff in my head that is living there rent free.
What’s with the title of this issue, Doc?
I thought that if I actually put my plan in bold typeface, that I would be held to do the thing that want to do. I’ve been thinking about going on a hike for over a month, but the weather has not been cooperating. But then I thought that maybe I am using the weather as an excuse to not do a thing that I actually want to do.
So no matter what the temperature is and no matter what the weather is like, I am going on a hike today!
And the fact that it is my birthday as well is also something, I think. The sun is finally in Aquarius and it is my solar return and it is a hike out in nature mere hours before a new moon and a hike just feels like something that needs to be done.
Hiking is just walking on uneven ground, right?
I haven’t really ever gone on a hike before, but I’ve done a lot of walking in my life, so I should be fine… I will probably be fine. Are there supplies I should have with me? Like food and water and a change of clothes and a flashlight and cash and a flare gun? If I go during the day while there are other people around, there probably won’t be many (any?) wild animals - or at least not the predator-type - and that will be a load off my mind.
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I always think of myself as someone who loves to be in the outdoors and I want to commune with nature and all that kind of witch or hippie stuff, but the truth of it is that I really do not like getting dirty and bugs are gross and most birds hate me and is this hike just a way of fighting through all these barriers? Maybe.
I think I’ll need a walking stick. (Or a hiking stick?)
This is going to happen.
Despite whatever the weather is going to be today and despite my uneasiness with nature and despite my lack of a hiking stick or other supplies, I am going to go on a hike. Today. Happy birthday to me!