Calendar Girl Blog: Summer in Canada

This is the first official day of summer in Canada. It's hard to believe that six months from now, all will be grey and white. This is especially so considering how incredibly green and lush everything is right now. But I shan't go there. It will all come about soon enough.

Please Sue, be in the moment.

Change is built right into our daily life in many forms, both externally in our environment and internally as we age. Given the minute by minute shifts that are unstoppable and the unpredictability of these changes I find it curious how 'carved in stone' my thinking can be.

Part of this tendency to hold on to some of my thinking with a two fisted grip comes from the difference between the age of my thinking and the age of my body. My body is more honest and in the moment. My mind seems to have gotten snagged somewhere around my mid-thirties.

I remember my older sister coming home from town one day quite distraught. She had been walking down Main Street, feeling pretty saucy, light in step and she caught sight of the reflection of an older woman in the store window she was passing. She stopped to get a better look and realized she was looking at herself.

I get that now. As much as I wish it was not true, my brain and my body seem to be on a slightly different trip.

Aging is not a disease and yet, in our youth driven culture, countless hours and bags of money is spent on all manner of avoidance of our natural human cycle. Me thinks that our brains could do with a time out to reflect on the damage it (our brains) impose on our bodies. Our bodies require exercise, sleep and good nutrition to function well. But our minds, living in the past, seem to have another idea.

I'm trying hard to take my changes in hand gracefully, with wisdom and humor. But this separates me from many of my peers who dye, inject, coat, implant, pierce and seal themselves into an age limbo. My less perky breasts, arctic blond hair, multiple laugh lines that seem to span from tip to toe (too many belly laughs perhaps) reveal my age much like the rings of a tree stump. How to get my mind to be in synch seems to be the real challenge to living a good quality life. Finding like minded peers, another.

Calendar Girl is very pleased with the weather today. To save heartbreak for any Coasters that might be reading, Calendar Girl will refrain from bragging.

Besides, maybe weather is an internal condition.

Calendar Girl

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Other Links and Blogs of mine. Maybe even of interest to you...or maybe not...
I'm just sayin.

Breast of Canada Calendar
Calendar Girl Blog
The Breast Views Blog
My Menopause Blog