Hiding in Plain Sight

I think I’ve rarely been so happy in my life.

I’ve had an ideal existence for the last week or so, and it there’s a possibility that it could go on for a while more, as least a few more weeks.

I wake up, meditate and do yoga. I eat breakfast, and I start working a story that I’d like to finish. It’s a novella at the moment, but it could be a novel I think. We’ll see how long the story needs to be.

It’s been stormy in the afternoons at the moment, so I usually try to stop by about noon and go for a walk before it rains. Bob the Blob is healing but I still look like someone slugged me, so I put on a hat to hide the stitches. I’ve had a tendinitis in one foot and a knee hurting on the other leg, but I don’t really care. I just walk and go look at the mountains. I listen to the birds, watch the insects, stop sometimes and just watch a squirrel or grass blowing in the wind. I admire the wildflowers.

I’ve done a variety of things for lunch, picnics or just skipping it if I’m not hungry. I either go get a coffee in our nice, new coffee house in the village or make one at home.

Afternoons I study. I’ve got an online course to finish, or I read and practice my German. I’m also trying to put my apartment back together and I try to get at least one box out of the storage area and sort through it. Lots and lots of stuff is going away, getting recycled, or I put in an ad in our local exchange forum to give it away if I think someone could use it.

I usually keep at the morning’s writing all day, off and on. Ideas will pop up while I’m walking and I record them on my phone, or I write while letting something cook.

Yesterday I took time off to go see an art exhibition with some friends from the village. After that I did a quick climbing session on my own, and went to see my friend who lives near the climbing gym. She made me dinner. It was nice to see people, but I’m also happy to be alone today.

I chat or text my partner every day, and I’ll go to see him in four days time. So for four days, I can just live exactly how I want, do what I want when I want, all the time knowing that there are people out there who I love and who love me. I’m in a cocoon of pleasure and love.

It’s just a wonderful existence. I don’t know how long it will last, but I feel like I’m hiding from the world here in my little apartment in the mountains. It’s a perfect mix.

Foro usually watches the clouds grow into storms and gradually fade.