My inner child had a great Sunday

 

By Susan Seddon Boulet

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It was a day to be outdoors. 84 F in the afternoon.

I'd approached the day with minimal plans, and wanted to experience a child-like day. 

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First I ate lunch under the slightly blooming tree to the side of the tennis courts at Lake Tomahawk.

(More on blooms later!)

It was a beautiful day for Canada Geese, who are in mating season and quite vocal about who gets to swim with whom.

Also people walking and many dog walkers. And even a family fishing (more later!)

As you can see, this post is to skim the surface!

I just did so much yesterday!

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Then I drove directly to the Blue Ridge Parkway, after finding the cheapest gas in the area.

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I wanted to just sit at an overlook and see how my breathing did with a higher elevation. First stop, Haw Creek Valley, elevation 2720. (I live at approximately 2400 feet above sea level.)

Asheville Mall makes a white swath of parking lots and stores in the distance. All the trees here were bare still.

But the sun was heating me up so much, I only sat in my stadium chair for 5-8 minutes there, and went driving on up to the next overlook. There were very few cars considering it was a beautiful Sunday!

I love sitting up here, looking down toward Black Mountain behind one of these ridges.

More about my Parkway visit soon! My goal Sunday afternoon was to try breathing at a higher altitude than I'm used to. I met this. No problems just sitting in the sun.

But when got home and I left the phone in the car and had to return to get it from my apartment, I again got out of breath. Shucks...a whole day out, and just walking back to the car showed me my limitations again.

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Yesterday I witnessed part of the Great Mother's March going to Washington DC. Here's my blog about it.

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Spinoza said, “The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.” And, “If you want the future to be different from the present, study the past.”

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Good news from The Contrarian at 6:30pm yesterday:

BIG NEWS: Norm Eisen and his colleagues in the courtroom got a huge summary judgment win this week in their Voice of America case.
What is Voice of America?
VOA is an independent broadcaster funded by the U.S. government that spreads accurate news to countries around the world. It especially seeks to distribute the facts to those living in countries without freedom of the press or independent journalism.
What does this mean?
The Voice of America will no longer be muted — the judge ordered that over a thousand VOA journalists and workers (who were put on administrative leave by the Trump Administration) must be reinstated by tomorrow. All other decisions that were made to gut the agency were ordered down to “statutory minimum and have been “vacated and set aside.”
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