well after a year of my "life is wonderful", I thought I would send you a note on my down day. More so to ensure you that I'm still human (and not Mary Poppins!)
It's raining this morning and looks like it will be pouring all day, which is very unusual this time of the year. By itself that wouldn't get me down but last night I tried to escape attack of 3 furious dogs while I was biking by. After trying the usual hiss sound I hear most locals do to chase off dogs, I did the more self preserved scream at the dogs. They only came at me with more fury, so trying to avoid the rabies series that would have followed the bite at my ankle, I decided to jump off my moving bike to put it between me and the dogs. I think it would have worked but a week ago I aggravated the planter fascia injury to my foot. The foot was suppose to land on the move and hold me up, well anyways my foot collapsed and it hurts! (the dogs did run away in all the confusion of my ungraseful landing.)
I was on my way to visit some friends and had some tender nursing care from my host. Ice, cleaning small skin wounds, and lending me a cane (can't walk without the cane and right now it looks more like a hobble.)
So that's the basis for my crummy day. Rain and pain. So my plan to do lots of walking and take tons of pictures of the different street and trees in town is out for the day. For you that know me well, you can no doubt appreciate what kind of bear I turn into when I can't get about. Looks like I'm going to be sitting and pouting today instead! (I do have to be very nice this morning because I forgot my wallet and I'm depending on the friendlyness of the staff to let me come back later to pay!)
In this moment of self pitty, I 'm reflecting on "my time away". Maybe as the day goes on I will realize what I am away from and what it means when I come back. Pehaps there is a lesson in this. I had better not try to land back home on the go, and when I get cornered by lifes' distracting barks, I'll work on a calmer approach.
I will surrender to the pain and inability to walk for the next few day. Even on this bad day I feel peaceful and calm. Tomorrow is the start of the art festival; the spark that motivated me to quit my job back home (There's a story to that but I wont bore you with that at this moment). I'm taking Drumming lessons and will spend the evening listening to local artist share there skills. It's kind of like Puerto's version of Folk festival.
Anyways, time to hobble home, hobble back to pay for breakfast and work out the rest of this Crummy day!!
miss you all
see you soon
P.S. The pictures are to cheer me up. first one is sunrise at Sabang, then some sun sets atSabang, and the last two are sun sets at bay walk (not that you prabably care were the pictures are from; it's just for record sake!)
1 comment:
Who let the dogs out? Who... who, who, who , who?! Who let the dogs out?! Who... who, who, who, who?! I'm sorry about your bad day. I empathize and for sure the dog thing recalls a few scary things with beligerent mutts for me. I can likely be sure you won't come home with some wierd idea, or at least not one about getting a new pet. My experience of the dogs there was they were very lethargic and uninterested in me, so I'm a little surprised you were bothered. All is not as it seems. Keep your chin up.
CUL8R
rick
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