going underground
“I do NOT want to do this right now.” After saying this out loud in the trailhead parking lot, I slammed my car trunk closed and hit the lock button. Then walked the 100 or so steps to the start of the trail and headed into the trees. A few minutes earlier, I was slipping off my Skechers and sliding into my dirt covered sneakers. It’s become a bit of a ritual, a realization I only came to this morning. After I park the car, I turn on my walk/hike/exercise tracker app and pull my body out of the driver’s seat. Walk to the trunk of my car, and change my shoes. It’s become routine. Then I take a minute to assess how I’m feeling physically, mentally…and that helps me set my goal for that moment, giving myself permission to set more than one, taking stock of how I feel along the way and honoring what my body’s saying back to me. This morning, I happened to say it out loud. Whether or not someone’s in the vicinity of this occurrence doesn’t really matter. I vocalized it today because I neede
