nothing but happiness

Pelle had already begun to dread the awful day when they would all have to go back to town. He had an old comb with as many teeth as the summer had days. Every morning he broke off a tooth and noticed anxiously how the comb grew thinner and thinner.

Melker saw the comb one morning and threw it away. To worry about the future was the wrong attitude toward life, he said. One should enjoy each day as it came. On a sunny morning like the present one, life was nothing but happiness. How wonderful it was to go straight out into the garden in pajamas, feeling the dew-wet grass under one’s feet, and then take a dip from the jetty and afterward sit down at the painted garden table to read a book or the paper while drinking delicious coffee, with the children milling around!

Astrid Lindgrin, Seacrow Island via evencleveland

Once

On a summer trip to Norway, I jumped in to the Arctic sea.
I did it because everyone else was doing it (yup) with what looked like ease...
And, as I have mentioned before, I've been swimming since I was a tiny...one of the only things my parents were adamant me and my brothers stuck with...so I figured I'd be strong enough.
The cold was such a shock to the system I had to be pulled back out, gasping and numb.
When I swim in the ocean now, I step into the water slowly and with great care and although I rarely think about that time in Norway, it always feels as though I'm absentmindedly touching a scar.

**PUBLIC NOTICE**

Please ignore all that 'get fit for summer bikini body' nonsense that's floating around designed to sell you things you don't need and feelings you can do without.
It's tempting to get fixated on the ephemeral stuff, I know, but it will be a waste of your sweet and precious time.

Instead BE KIND to yourself by:

Finding ways to move that you love. LOVE LIBERATES. It will keep you coming back.

Finding ways to move that challenge your nerve, curiosity and natural urge to play.

Finding ways to move intelligently to cultivate self trust, self knowledge and self love. The more clearly you understand yourself and you motivations the better chance you have of acting well in the world.

Finding teachers that help drop you into your body and encourage you to be honest with yourself and about what you feel so you can change from working/feeling/responding from your own history to creating new, more helpful patterns, which ultimately gives you choice, health and freedom.

I could go on, but it will keep you from moving so be gone!

Happy May Day!

I'm heading south to get involved with this tradition! It nuts (and brilliant).
Have a lovely long weekend.