Other aspects of my sabbatical

I believe that there are spiritual, personal, and health aspects to a sabbatical. To this end, I get up w/ Marianna and do yoga and then walk the dogs. After motoring her to Alta, I then take the dogs to Starbuck's to get my coffee and where they are given whipping cream by the staff who adore them and go home. I am reading Phyllis Tickle's Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385492863/qid=1094577150/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/103-4345361-6309416?v=glance&s=books&n=507846four times daily. These are updated readings/prayers based on Benedictine monks prayers. It is a great thing to do and puts me on a higher plane during the day. Here is a recent reading by the Jesuit, Jean-Pierre de Caussade:

All that happens to me becomes bread to nourish me, soap to cleanse me, fire to purify me, a chisel to carve heavenly features on me. Everything is a channel of grace for my needs. The very thing I sought everywhere else seeks me incessantly, and gives itself to me by means of all created things. In other words, if it doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger!


Next week, I am beginning my free membership at GEMS (women's half hour weight training circuit) with Marianna and returning to WW.

In addition my dogs are getting much longer walks. Delilah is no longer considered overweight and Dr. Hill thought she looked the best ever!