Sundays

Sunday is a laid back day, compared to most.  Worship in the morning.  Reading the newspaper in the afternoon.  Watching television at night.   Nothing too exciting.   I guess the sad sad truth is, I'm not looking for big huge excitement in my life.  I like mellow.  I like being home.  I like a routine.  Even if that makes me a terribly dull girl,  I don't even care!   To be perfectly honest,  I've had enough excitement to last me three or perhaps four lifetimes.

Rather than excitement,  (which might have been a goal at one time),  now I aim for balance (which is a spiritual state). Not surprisingly,  I am not there yet,  but I am working on that. One does have to ask what that would look like, this balanced life.  Here is what I imagine that would be like,  specifically for me, and my unique traits and characteristics:

A close family filled with love and joy;  a loving marriage
Mind and body in sync;  being comfortable in my body
Excellent health, with strong resistance to any illness or disease
Regular exercise doing something I enjoy
Aware of and in touch with nature and all its beauty and pleasures
Lots of people interaction and a few good friends
Occasional opportunities for being creative;  intellectual challenges
No unresolved emotional or spiritual issues
Living more in the present than in the past or future
Being grateful, joyful, whole.

 I do know that all this is the kind of stuff that those of us who are Sixty Plus have the leisure and freedom to think about and work on.   Or maybe some of us have just always thought about this sort of stuff?

With fewer demands, distractions, pulls, it is much easier to get a really good glimpse at balance, at this stage of life, rather than earlier.

Now I can take my time, and really focus.