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A Little Memoir-style Writing

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Exercise Report, written while resting afterward, pondside: 2,086 extra steps done, (1,049 metres walked). So, I’ve done my steps, mostly outside, around the driveway ‘walking track’, and then up and back the back veranda, down the little easterly path and back, and around and around the pool. Now I’m sitting by the pond. Checked heart rate, 72 beats per minute, so up a bit, but not enough to make a huge impression in calories burn rate, from memory. It’s pleasant here though, fountain not going, because of shade, but still nice to sit here anyway, with green duckweed covering the pond, and the three remaining pants, of the four purchased recently, poking up from their pots in the water down below.

And now I hear a Crow, or is that Raven, caw caw or is that agh agh? And gone. Various cheeps and chirps from smaller birds, and somewhere further away, a Spotted Turtledove with its call, twhit toowoo, twhit toowoo … And still a Crow/Raven calls, warning? Summoning? Only the other Crows(or Ravens) really know the answer to that one. Now little black and white visitors, somewhere close, I hear but can’t see any of them, except in my mind’s eye, Willie Wagtails wagging their sassy long tails, and calling in their usual way, “sweet pretty creature”, and yes they are, very sweet and pretty creatures!

Feeling cooler now, the pond area shaded by the Peppercorn tree right next to where I’m sitting. It’s a pleasant little area, been created for me to rest, and ponder life, and perhaps gain ongoing inspiration to bring good things to my life. There are exercise options here as well, the railway sleepers to do step ups on, and the area to walk around, both the smoother space created by the landscape worker, and the rest of the back part of our place, not as smooth and tidy, but not too bad. I have to be careful of the rocks though, so many small rocks, waiting to trip me up!

‘Shade’ tree

I’ve checked my heart rate again, it’s slowed to 68 beats per minute, and it will go down to around 62, I would imagine – that’s my usual rate. And now, time to go back inside. The Galahs are out there, flying around, getting on with their day, and the mozzies (mosquitoes) are down here with me by the pond, and they’re trying to suck my blood! I sure don’t want that to happen, so Ooroo!

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Published by carolyncordon

Wife, mother, Poet, Writer, Art Installationist, Stand Up Comedian, Dog Enthusiast. Spending most of my time being creative in a variety of sometimes quirky ways! I have suffered in my life, I have had wonderful things occur in my life. Concentrating on the wonderful things makes it easier for me to live a great life.

11 thoughts on “A Little Memoir-style Writing”

    1. Thank you Ingrid, I actually was told today I had a poem not considered for a prize in a poetry competition, because it was lacking in description, so it seems sometimes I’d, sometimes I don’t.
      I’ve worked on that same poem this afternoon, because I’ve put it in the new poetry collection I’m currently planning to submit to a particular publisher.

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      2. Thank you Ingrid, I certainly enjoyed writing it! I’ve been doing these ‘extra steps’ almost every day, to keep on being able to keep walking. When the Neurologist diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis, in 2010, he stressed the importance of keeping on walking. “Use it or lose it” was what he said, and that is firmly fixed in my mind, because I definitely have too much to do, to let myself go, unable to get around the way I like to do. No wheelchair for me!
        And every day, I’ve been recording my weight, and my steps done. And I started doing some writing to go with the results, comments on how I feel about the results, for instance, and hopes for a lower number from the bathroom scales! I told my local doctor about this today, and he is most keen for me to keep on with the walking, and encouraged me to do the lifting of hand weights too, when I mentioned that to him as well. He told me if everyone did the exercises he told them they should do, then he’d have hardly any patients left, because they’d all be so healthy they didn’t need him.

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      4. I’m a Positive Polly, always trying to see the good, even when there are bad things involved as well. Looking for good and finding it, is so much better than looking for bad, and finding that.

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      6. I did need a wheelchair back in 2019, but that was because I’d broken my right ankle! That was quite different. Although trips and falls are quite common, for people with MS, so it may have been because of this chronic illness. There’s no way of telling, and my ankle has healed up beautifully well! I even wrote a small poetry collection about it all, while I was left sitting on the sofa and was more or less unable to move for the end of
        September, and most of October .. was an interesting experience, one I don’t ever want to go through again!

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      7. My medication is dong a great job, and I’m doing the right thing too, with a good healthy diet, and being active as much as possible.
        And having this positive attitude, they all add up.

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