5 Minutes Of My Day - Learning to be patient with myself

My how I wish my body would move as I think it should!  The instructions from our yoga teach foretell of a downward dog coming, I cannot get myself into that position and I follow her direction and try.  

At we hold the position she reminds us to be patient with ourselves and as my legs vibrate, my wrists begin to hurt her words are opening new thoughts and ideas.

Patience what is it?  It must be more than just waiting quietly.  

Patience I have come to understand is being present in each moment waiting with expectation for wisdom. 

Being patient with yourself is the same being present with yourself expecting wisdom, opening to self awareness, to knowing yourself differently to finding the wisdom you hold.

With my new understanding of patience I approached a project that I have struggled with to complete and patience provided inspiration.

Genius is eternal patience ~ Michelangelo

In 2015 for some reason I did not take a photograph and I can only assume it was a rough day and yet I have taken a daily picture through the worst of days.  Not having a photograph has left me not knowing and filled me with many questions about that day.  

It is a marvel of the human experience how a picture transports you back to that moment, to your thoughts and expectations. 

How do you hold onto memories?

2017 Enjoying a visit with our granddog Toaster

2016 Finding this little fellow in our rose garden 

2015 I did not take a picture and I have no memory of the day how very sad.

2014 Enjoying fresh raspberries straight from the garden 

Grandma Snyder

©twosnydergirls 2018

5 Minutes Of My Day - Thunderstorms roll in

The hot weather will come to an end this evening with the thunderstorms that are building on the horizon.  The cooler weather and renewed freshness that the storms will bring is anticipated with joy.

2017 This moth had a ride home with us on the Rpod.

2016 Too hot today to be outside.

2915 Flying kites in Saskatchewan 

2014 Sewing with our grandchildren

Grandma Snyder

©twosnydergirls 2018

5 Minutes Of My Day - Sunshine and the fragrance of wild phlox

Our sense of smell is one of our strongest links to memory.

This evening the temperature was perfect for driving with the window down and as I drove home the fragrance of wild phlox transported me back to my childhood and driving early in the morning with my grandfather.

A weekend sleepover with my paternal grandparents meant an early morning drive with grandpa where he would introduce me to the amazing beauty of his world.

Wild phlox was just of the beauties he introduced me to and the intoxicating fragrance they create on the wind.

2017 Wild phlox grows in our garden beside our poppies

2016 Enjoying watching this rabbit pretend it is not there

2015 Helping this snapping turtle cross the road

2014 Following the path of our ancestors 

Grandma Snyder

©twosnydergirls 2018

5 Minutes Of My Day - I am here.

Racing through the day, moving from one stressful event immediately into the next with no awareness of self – my needs, the space that I am taking up, being totally focused on the people and tasks before me it was that at the end of the work day with both breakfast and lunch  half eaten on my desk, I race home just in time to travel with Paul to our yoga class.

At the studio I quickly gather yoga props, lay down and continue to race through the day right up until our instructor asks us to breath in “I am” and breath out “here.”

Breath in the beauty and amazing moments that were today.

Hold strong through the moments that were awful

Breath out into the present moment of your now.

I am here.

I am here

With these words I reclaim myself, begin to feel my body, relax into the wonder of the moment I am in.

I could not tell you what the sky was like as I entered the yoga studio and as I existed with the words “ I am” flowing through me as I breathed in and “here” as I exhale I am overwhelmed with the beauty of the sky above me and experience pure joy.

2017 Enjoying our spring garden in bloom

2016 Taking a quick look at the wren nest in our fern

2015 Photographing between rain showers

2014 Taking the time to see this snapping turtle safely across the road.

Grandma Snyder

©twosnydergirls 2018

Small Lizards

Three images of small lizards

Grandma Snyder

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