Tucked away in a dark corner,
Multitudes Of mysteries
awaiting discovery inside.
In your depths
there are riches hidden
Cast off and forgotten by others.
The perfumes waft upon a breeze,
Scents of coffee, bark, and meat,
Maddening my senses and compelling action.
Oh, trash can,
Open to my desires, spill your earthly treasures,
My Name is Roxy, and I am Dog.
I decided to play along and challenge myself to read 20 21 books this summer.
The pandemic may be almost over, but my vacation plans suffered (no Scotland this year), so I will have some reading time while I relax with the puppies at a nearby beach house. Hopefully, that time will help me achieve this ambitious goal!
We’ll see if I can do it!
In no particular order:
PS. Yes, I’m using this opportunity to dig into a lot of work related books I’ve been ignoring on the TBR shelf.
What books are you reading this summer?
PPS. Reading the challenge again, I see that it’s June 1 to September 1. So, I’m going to give myself a starting credit of 3, for “Think Again”, “The History of Video Games”, and “Dragonflight”, all of which I started and completed this month. I am not counting “Uncanny Valley” (started May 31) or “The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires” (also started in May).
Pink. Undulating. Moist. In and out it goes Caressing the air, tasting skin. Longer than expected, Sometimes dangling, Something dancing. When you least expect it, BAM! Indy’s tongue is in your mouth.
Just remember: I never made any claims that my poetry was good.
Time to follow up with a second pillar of health, exercise!
The World Health Organization recommends a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week. Alternatively, you can do 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise instead. For even more health benefits, they recommend doubling these recommendations.
Wow! That’s a lot of exercise, huh? I’ve seen some online articles claiming things like “sitting is the new smoking” and such. I take this to mean that sitting is (like smoking used to be) something bad for your health that many people are doing unknowingly.
Prior to the pandemic, I was doing pretty good at getting in exercise. I was meeting a personal trainer at least once a week, taking group fitness classes. This added up to around 3-4 hours of exercise that spanned from moderate to vigorous intensity. I also used to be up and down the stairs at my office 10+ per day, 5 days a week.
Lately, I’ve been trying to get in two 30-minute sessions of strength training and at least 30 minutes of running every week. In theory, I should have more time now that I don’t have a commute to work. However, now I spend more and more of my mornings in meetings, because hey no commute means we can have meetings instead. Ugh.
I’ve been writing these posts about the four pillars of health for a few reasons. One, to inspire all of you to get healthy, to be healthy, to stay healthy. Two, to inspire myself to take all this knowledge in my head and turn it into wisdom by applying it to my own life.
The positive side of things is that I am doing quite well on one pillar (the third one, I’ll share it with you soon, I promise!), so-so on two (exercise and the fourth pillar, also to be shared soon), and that there’s only one (food) where I really need to kick some bad eating habits.
How are y’all doing with your food and exercise? Do you get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise every week? Are you like me, and you spend an immense amount of time sitting?