A driving free day today which is a regular weekly event. Since Tuesday is my Zoom exercise day starting at 10.30, we need to stay an extra night in the same place, because lodging departure time is 10.00. I also Zoom on Friday but it finishes at 10.30, and so far our hosts have given us that extra half hour. This means we can walk more on Tuesday, so I was able to move into the 20kms which means I’m feeling it a little more. Also, with more kms it moves into my ‘off’ time, meaning the medication is losing its effect. However it is interesting to observe how I can cope during that time – quite a notable difference.
As you can see we like to walk, and this is helped by the fact that lots of shops are closed – some because of the virus, although it is difficult to really be clear. The walk ways are open, very wide and extending for many kilometres around most of the town uninterrupted by private property. Bikeways are excellent, as are the riders who unlike anywhere we’ve been, ring their bell on approach.
So today we were just short of circumnavigating Ballina, mostly along the Richmond river with ‘pelican islands’ speckled along this very wide body of water. Pelicans compete with dogs to become man’s best friend as they (the men) stood on one of the many and varied tiny to small beaches cleaning fish (pelicans’ best friend). Towards the end of the day (and that is the real end)- when the sun is heading west, we walked out on the seawall to watch dozens of Dolphins.
At first their smooth grey oily bodies slid through the wavy water, with a few catching a wave, then just two or three would shoot out into the air to the chorus of ‘wow’s’ and ‘woo’s’ from the dozen people who made the trek.
There seemed to be one very large school of these beautiful mammals who appeared to be just simply enjoying what I might call their passion.
Well known to have a high intellect along with a good level of emotional intelligence, I will make a loose suggestion that they might be an example of
a mammal, naturally doing what only some human beings are trying to achieve through conscious action.
To change your brain, it takes a lot of work
Some hours pes day and every day you need
Tense focus, it is not a job to shirk,
The Brain – its hunger cries for us to feed.
But what’s the nourishment it likes the best
To ease the pain that lingers deep inside
And satiate its aching need – unrest
Then wait and watch to see what will betide.
It yearns no less, for you to learn and grow
So its potential it can there achieve.
So find your passion let it be your flow
And slowly, surely, we can the retrieve.
Those neurons that seemed lost for ever more
May give your brain a chance to now restore.
