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September 14, 2009
The PSG is Back Again
Although I fancy myself a would-be “morning person”, I am finding it difficult to get up these past few days. Why? We are still on “west coast time.” I desire to rise at 7AM, but my body is screaming, “IT’S 4AM! What are you doing?”
I want to go to sleep at 10:30PM, but my body sternly states, “Sorry, you can’t sleep yet. Its only 7:30.”
My mind is still hard at work processing everything from our recent trip to California and Oregon.
Naturally, upon our return our friends have been asking, “Did you have a nice vacation?” I feel compelled to remind them that it was a “working vacation.” I am tempted to say, “Don’t you remember what I told you before we left, that we were going out there to work? We spent most of our time working, along with preparing for and leading a songwriters’ workshop in Oregon. We may have had a couple of days off, but we did not return home all refreshed and relaxed.” While this is what I am tempted to say, I realize that petulance is not attractive, so I simply say, “Did we have a nice vacation? Yes, it was very nice.”
So, am I complaining that our trip was not restful? Of course not! It was in fact, quite beneficial, and we actually did return home refreshed and rejuvenated mentally, if not physically.
In the coming days, I’ll relate some thoughts that came to me during our CA and OR expedition. As I write about our trip, it won’t be just a “we went here and we did that” recollection, (we can tell you that over lunch sometime…) but rather a collection of “life lessons” that were brought to mind during our various activities. No radically new or unheard of concepts here, just a little common wisdom that benefits the mind and the soul.
Posted by leonolguin at September 14, 2009 11:29 AM