Monday, December 1, 2008

Stilling the Typing

It’s not always comical when the universe forces a stilling on your soul, but when you have the leisure time to accept the carpel tunnel that creeps up on you when you’re trying to write, you can laugh about it and take a week off to recover.

This would never be allowed if I had someone depending on my project. This was the mindset I had when the shooting pains in my wrists started to creep up on me (a bi-product of taking the Bar Exam this summer –I am positive.) In my old life I would have bitched and bemoaned my body for giving up on me, and I would have worked through the pain, determined to have my way. I have developed a completely different mind while in Tuscany.

After half a day of fighting my old mindset, I up and left for a long bike ride through the changing vineyards. Renewed and refreshed, with a new sense of awe, I turned my attention to reading and biking and cooking, till my eyes and leg muscles burned like my wrists. Here are the photos I took along the way.

2 comments:

Dr. T said...

To be able to take those leisurely rides through beautiful countryside, that is one of the things I miss most from living in Europe.

Rebecca Stodola Soukakos said...

Tune up the bike my friend, I am coming home and not going to give up on this new found love. We'll find some apple orchards in WA.