It’s official!
I awakened to cool breezes and a desire to go walking in the
park. I have decided it is a reluctance
to walk the two blocks from here to there that keeps me away. I am always afraid someone will let their
dog out and I will be so vulnerable, so I drive up there now.
That leaves me forty minutes to walk and I notice that I am
up past two miles! I am also starting
to notice a few other “regulars.” There
are the two older women who live in one of the big old houses on the west side
of the square, the man with the border collie who runs the bed and breakfast on
the corner, the man from a prominent hair salon who picks up trash as he walks
along and others.
Historical houses line the perimeter with plaques detailing
who once lived here and their significance in Illinois history.
But most of all it is the shade and the serenity that calls
me here early in the morning before it gets too hot and today was a
celebration.
I have lost fifty pounds!
Beginning on Valentine’s Day I started to walk five minutes a day and
try to watch what I ate, never dreaming that in four and a half months I might
be able to wear regular clothes, hit tennis balls at the park and generally
feel pretty good about myself.
I still have a bunch of little aches and pains, but in
general I feel thirty years younger.
What a gift that is!
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