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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3970542, member: 181"] Writing this from the beach after 9am yoga, to which I arrived so late that it was no more than a guided meditation on gratitude while I lay in shivasana ("corpse pose") upon a giant towel atop a thick lawn. It's my first time sitting still outside in short sleeves wearing sunblock - a chance to write, read, relax, listen to the birds, and feel the breeze. My lateness this morning came from a slow pace, awakening from great sleep after a 3-hour slow-biking excursion from Westville to East Rock to Spring Glen, and back home via the Farmington Canal Trail & past SCSU before twilight turned to darkness. Stopped for photos, txted w/friends, and arrived too late for planned live music in n Hamden. No regrets. Errands & physical therapy after the beach, perhaps dinner with a friend. Likely, once back home, to load my car with Sportbrella & other items to reestablish it for warmer weather and local/regional exploration & enjoyment. Tomorrow, I'll be on the sand when yoga starts at 9, and afterward traveling to Hartford for Porch Music V, an afternoon of latin jazz in front of a West End home. My running mate has requested a trip to Elizabeth Park's Rose Garden, where it's most likely tulipland. The leisure time building blocks are regular outdoor music & yoga, social biking, beach time, and a cautious approach to hiking due to many pictures of snakes & (more significantly) ticks from the CT Hiking FB Group members with far more experience than I. Might be getting my first trekking poles today. Increasingly, more friends are more available, and I have to/get to choose how social I wish to be. COVID has offered great 'cover' for accessing and nurturing a more introverted nature than I'd previously recognized. In addition to the huge number of day trips possible from New Haven, I'll (at least) visit one sister at the beach in OCNJ, and the other in NY's Finger Lakes region, where I hope to also meet up with a high school friend to bike along the Erie Canal Trail and perhaps catch a Blue Jays game at this season's home field in Buffalo where my high school buddy now lives. Friends who live on Boston's South Shore, and those in a western suburb are good candidates for meeting 'halfway,' maybe even a baseball game in Worcester's new stadium. Further afield, Lake Winnipesaukee? In July, I'll meet a friend at the New York Botanical Garden for Yayoi Kusama's art among the flora. Other tine(s), I'll bike in NYC's 5 boroughs, after only one such excursion in the past 20 months. Biggest wildcard would be a road trip to Kentuciana, where my daughter lives across the Ohio River from Louisville. So long as my body continues to cooperate, it's an abundant time. [/QUOTE]

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