daily routine: local park

I can’t quite get my head around the idea that it’s winter.

It honestly feels like the beginning of the year – and I’m trying to settle on 2021 plans and intentions.

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Don and I broke out of our Routine yesterday and had a day out – a morning walk in the bushland north of the harbour and then an amazing lunch by the beach. It was an utterly beautiful day, almost summer weather – Sydney was sparkling, though a little smoky from hazard reduction burning.

And that Routine? I’m left with a lot of thoughts and feelings.

We’re ridiculously fortunate that we’re arrived at a place that is very comfortable, very secure, very calm, very tranquil, very peaceful, very soothing, very ordered. And I think our outing made us realise that this is also kind of boring?

We seem to have unknowingly trapped ourselves in a bit of a rut – our days and weeks and months now fall along pretty predictable lines.

Being outside of it all gave me some much-needed perspective. Just what am I doing? Is spending every Saturday morning doing laundry (I’ll spare you the excruciating details of the other regular chores) really how I want to live my life? I’m fairly confident the answer is no, but that’s exactly how things are playing out.

I’ve missed a lot of glorious weather … and, well, a decent chunk of my non-work life … in my quest for clean laundry and an organised house.

Plans are afoot to change this.

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