I heart ulcers
Do you look for signs; indications perhaps from a higher power that you should be undertaking a specific course of events? It’s a tool often used in comedies where a character may plead “God, just give me a sign if you think I’m doing the wrong thing!” Only to receive several and ignore them all because they want to carry on …
I’m not really like that. I’ll admit to trying to repeat the circumstances that may have surrounded previous successes – lucky cricket socks, for example. But I’m not one to see things in front of me as significant prompts to act in a particular way.
My attention was grabbed though by the door below, which I presume gets very little use as an entrance to an old industrial building on the route I often take from car to office.
I’ve walked past it hundreds of times, but the writing is either a recent addition, or I’ve only just noticed it.
This was a warm morning. The kind of start that was going to turn hot and uncomfortable for office workers. A rarity in Huddersfield, but not unwelcome.
At lunchtime I decided to do something I’d never done before. I took my lunch and a book up to Greenhead Park, sat in the sunshine and took a proper break. Away from the busy town centre. Away from my desk. Away from the computer screen. For an hour.
And I’ve thought about the door a few times in the past week or so, most of which I’ve spent on holiday. I love many aspects of my job. But you’ve got to look out for warning signs of imbalance haven’t you? Maybe I’ll start saluting magpies …
Love it! (Heart it?) Bizarre and brilliant and unfathomable. Greenhead Park is a good place to practice your salute..
What you reading.
Axxx
It was a great day for it in the park. I bought a Kindle with my birthday cash, so it was either Michael Vaughan’s autobiography, or Othello, neither of which I’d read before.
Are you reading something good at the moment?
Andy
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Reading ‘The Help’ by Kathryn Stockett and Voltaire’s ‘Candide’. Do you like the Kindle? Thinking of getting one for my birthday…
Im a qualified meditation leader ………..I could do lunchtime sessions for stressed out public sector peeps……. :-
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I could see that being popular Christine! My first meditation experience was on a trip to the Vajrapani centre in Huddersfield about 9 years ago (http://www.vajrapanicentre.org/Pages/home). It was very effective.
May be it’s supposed to be read as “I hear t’ulcers”; it is Yorkshire after all. Sounds a bit sinister though! Either way, definitely a sign you should spend more time in the park at lunchtimes.
And
I hear Tulsas? That’d be worth a lunch break too!
Annie (for some reason I can’t put another reply in the comment above), Yes I quite like my Kindle. I got the touch screen version and am speeding through a few texts. It is ‘a bit Marmite’. Nic won’t go anywhere near it. Not read any Voltaire … will add to the list.