The View From Here
It's not quite 9am and I'm in Anchorage and am sitting outside! In the sunshine! (It's about 40 degrees.) Again, my journey started at 2am but this time I was riding with a friend who is a professional driver. Carpooling, both of us with 10am appointments in the big town, both need to be back home by this evening. Big day.
It's thawing everywhere here (which is not to deny that there's still a lot of snow, especially up high) and light until almost 11pm. There was a faint glimmer of light in the sky even at 2am when our journey started! May now - getting pretty close to that time of midnight sun. The snowshoe hare are turning dark brown - they were snowy white all winter to merge with the snow. Ptarmigans do the same thing. Amazing how their bodies know to do that. I saw canada geese picking in the thawing bogs and swans on Tern Lake. The air is getting more melodiously textured every day, it seems - hermit thrushes, song sparrows, golden crown sparrows, warblers… Oh, and those sandhill cranes with their throaty, prehistoric rattle.
Up For This Week
We had dinner with our neighbors on Saturday night and they had a friend over playing Celtic harp. I seem to have been feeling a little better since then (was in a pit of depression since the accident on the road) - I've been away from that kind of music so long but it does strike a deep chord in me.
What have you found can lift you out of a depression?
I'd love to hear about that from everyone who has a story and to write about it some more this week.
I'll try to take some more pictures too, although that camera is really the worst - but with the green filling in so fast you can practically watch it grow, it makes taking pictures seem really tempting.
I'd like to do some more talking about words this week, and some kind of food talk, although I haven't even yet decided what.
Happy May to everybody - May everybody be happy!
to lift me out of a depression--good question. for immediate results, i need to be distracted. it also might be a matter of calming down. for long term, i have found therapy and raw foods to help me as well as antidepressants.
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OMG! I was so overwhelmed I completely forgot to check on updates! Were you in an accident? I have to go back and check all your older blog entries. Life here has been crazy and I've been trying to relax whenever I could. Phew! I hope you are feeling better!
ReplyDeleteWhat lifts me out of a depression is eating well, eating lots of greens, and taking in a lot of omega 3 fatty acids. Right now, for me and the baby, I'm taking 2 pills a day of O-Mega-Zen3. E-mail me if you want some. It makes a huge difference. Also, trying to get as much sunshine as I can, and reading good, inspiring books. I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks, ladies, for your comments. Those are some good suggestions. I'm thinking of you both with your own challenges and sending you love and admiration. I'll recap at some later point this week with some more thoughts on this.
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