Five Senses Friday is a way to either weekly...or like me, sporadically…reflect on “where I am right now”. Another great series of prompts that I sometimes use is “A Woman's Daybook Journal”. This is something I do on my own rather than join in with the group called “A Simple Womans Daybook Journal”.
Seeing: a million shades of grey. We’ve had lots of rain recently and the soft, subdued, greys are everywhere…blue greys, green greys, red greys and purple greys…all beautiful in their own way. I’ve also been working playing with my camera in manual mode, (yay, I’m finally getting it off automatic!) partly because of a fantastic course I took last weekend and partly because I’ve been inspired by the technique of “In Camera Movement”…more on that in another post…so because of that, I’ve really been paying attention to the shades and tones of the colours around me.
tasting: right now it’s dark chocolate covered almonds. Yum! Since I eliminated wheat from my diet last September, I’ve not had any pasteries, cookies, breads or anything even remotely on the decadent side of yummy…but I can still eat chocolate…oh yes! So, chocolate covered almonds are my not so guilty pleasure right now. (I have a small window of opportunity even for chocolate, as I can’t eat anything with caffeine after 2:00 pm or it keeps me awake at night… ‘ya think the universe is trying to tell me something?) But I do feel so much better not eating wheat and I fought this for years.
smelling: paint. house paint. This week we painted two rooms…a bathroom that was never quite finished (and still isn’t...it needs some tiling done) and the den. It tore the house apart for a week and it’s a small house to begin with, so all the “stuff”…art supplies, furniture etc…had to go somewhere! All is now finished and restored to it’s rightful place and the the new colours are making me very happy.
hearing: I’ve been listening to my ipod a lot. But not to music. Last November I began researching brain entrainment programs and am using one now which requires 1 1/2 – 2 hours of listening a day. I call it my happy time!
feeling: lots of raindrops and crisp, cool wind on my cheeks. I’ve been walking…rain or no rain and although it doesn’t do a lot for my hair, it really helps me to stay connected to the “rightness” of life.
Wishing you an inspired weekend,
