Going into the 9th week of 2008

After six days of rain the sun came out this morning and we're told that this is the way it will be for a while.

Last night I reread Julia Cameron's chapter on walking in THE WRITING DIET and decided to take Beulie for a short stroll in our neighborhood. It was only 30 minutes, but I've already lost the first three pounds with my Clean Eating and I have so much more energy. Already there is change! My goal is to walk more days than not, even if it is for so brief a time.

In one of Hannah Hinchman's books she writes of the importance of walking and suggests that we bring something home that can be incorporated into a sketchbook. So this afternoon I grabbed a bunch of wildflowers and added a page with the wild calendula that has fascinated me all winter.