Humidity on Spiritual Sunday

 Jamál (Beauty), 1 Kamál (Perfection), 173 BE - Sunday, July 31, 2016 AD about 10:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time

It's a beautiful and humid Sunday here in Las Vegas. The temperature is approximately 93 degrees with 27% humidity. I took a walk earlier when the temperature wasn't so high. There was a little wind so it felt good walking in the cool wind. I've decided to change my morning walk into a walking meditation starting in August.  I haven't been doing a walking meditation, however, I think it would help me refocus when I come back in the house. I've got so much  to do it August that I can't afford to let my mind winder the way it's been doing. 

Beautiful Sunday 

Temperature and humidity rising 

Sometimes the sun cast shadows across 

Sunrise Avenue 

I just turned the air conditioner on, so it feels a little better in the house. Going outside after 7:00 AM is difficult because of the heat and the humidity. This means I'll have to get up early so that I can walk with the temper isn't so sweltering. Wishing everyone a Happy and Spiritual Sunday.

Monday Mumblings: Walking at least ten minutes every hour

Kamál (Perfection), 19 Sultán (Sovereignty), 168 BE – Monday, February 6, 2012 about 1:45 PM Pacific Time

I went to the Desert West Surgical Center this morning to have the vein procedure on my left leg. I received a local anesthetic, so there was not very much pain. I arrived home about 11:30 PM.

The doctor said I had to get up and walk at least ten minutes every hour. I will not have trouble walking for ten minutes, all though I may have trouble getting up, but that has nothing to do with the procedure. I always have trouble getting out of chairs, except those in a doctor’s office waiting room. I think that is because those chars have arms I can use to push myself up.

I need to buy some new chairs for the house, but that will have to wait for a while. In the mean time, I will just push myself out of my chairs the best I can and do laundry or some other household chore every time I get up. Most of the things I have to do that does not require lifting anything heavy, if there is something heavy I have to lift it will just have to wait until after Thursday.

I need to get organized

Kamál (Perfection), 19 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Monday, November 3, 2008 about 3:55 PM Pacific Time

Tomorrow Qudrat begins and I need to get organized. I have found it's easy to get things done when you have a car and gas in the take to take you home quickly. However, when you walk a mile to work and then back home again it takes a bit more time.

All right, so I've probably never been the most organized person in the world. Organization is not one of my strong points. However, in order to get anything achieved a person has to have a little organization. There was a time when I had a little organization, but lately it seems I don't have any. I think I need to take a different approach for one thing, I need to stop gripping and get organized.

I realized today on my way home from work how much I gripe. No to anyone else usually, but to myself. I don't know why I just realized this today, maybe it was because the walk was easier. It wasn't any shorter, but it was easier. Perhaps I'm getting used to the walk and I now have time to listen to my thoughts.

I thank that is a part of transformation, learning to listen to ones thoughts and actually consider what you are saying to yourself. Now all I have to do is take one step at a time and do a little each day. I don't know what I'm going to do about getting organized tomorrow, since I will spend the day working at the polls. Perhaps take notebook with me and write down the areas I need to focus on.

I feel better Today

Istiqlál (Independence), 9 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 24, 2008 about 5:57 PM Pacific Time

I feel better today and I think it's because I ate more protein then yesterday. I also walk only a mile and a half today rather then two miles. Next week will be better, I think. I'll be off work two days, which means two days without the two-mile walk. Thursday I have a dental appointment in the morning and a doctor's appointment in the afternoon at the same clinic. I'll just stay at the clinic until after the doctor's appointment.

The clinic is about 3/4 of a mile from the house, which means less of a walk. The only problem is Mom has a dental appointment at the same clinic 1/2 after mine. I still don't have a car and I doubt that it will be back before the appointment next week.

Tomorrow we're going to the bank and then to Food 4 Less for some groceries. We didn't go to the bank today because I just couldn't face the half mile walk to the bus after the two-mile walk to work and home again. My knee bothers me when I walk on cement more then any other time. I've had a lot more protein today, so that may be why I'm feeling better.

It's Wednesday and still no car

‘Idál (Justice), 7 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Wednesday, October 22, 2008 about 4:57 PM Pacific Time

I'm walking two miles a day for five days a week. It's one mile to work and one mile back home again. Today was a better experience then yesterday, but I think that's because I've resigned myself to walking two miles a day to work and back for the rest of the year. True, my right knee still hurts, but if I keep my mind busy on the way to work and back home, then I don't focus on the knee or the pain. When I came home today, I took a nap on the love seat.

I also increased my protein intake today. I had a tuna sandwich for breakfast, a meat dish for lunch and Sloppy Joes for dinner. Tomorrow I will probably eat a tuna sandwich or a cheese sandwich, but I'm not going to eat cereal with milk. I need iron in my body to walk the two miles so cereal is out for breakfast until Saturday and Sunday.

I'm a bit behind on everything because I went to bed early last night. However, I must have needed the rest because I didn't get up at midnight the way I usually do when I go to bed at 6:30 or 7:00 PM. I got up this morning as usual at 2:30 AM.

I am walking to work this week

Fidál (Grace), 6 Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, October 21, 2008 about 4:55 PM Pacific Time

I'm to and from work this week. It's about a two-mile walk both ways, but I have no other choice. I don't have a car and probably won't have one for a while, so I have to walk to work. I had an interview last Thursday to see if I could qualify for Paratransit. However, I have to go to work so I'm not waiting to see if I qualified.

I'm not sure that I will qualify. I'm not basing this on the interview, but on a dream I had last week before the interview took place. In the dream my mother went to work with me, so I suspect she will qualify, but I won't. If I don't qualify then I'll be walking to work for some time because I don't expect to get the car back for some time.

Because of my right knee walking is painful, but not impossible. I just have to focus on other things besides the knee and my negative thoughts. Today I saw a yellow spring flower blooming. This is autumn and the flower was the type that grew from a bulb. I think it might be related to a tulip, but I'm not sure.

If I had been riding in a car I wouldn't have saw the flower because it bloomed on a corner. The flower was hidden from the street and people in cars couldn't see it. The interesting thing is I walked past that corner this morning and didn't see the flower then, but I saw it coming home from work.

The Motif of my Life

Kamál (Perfection), 5Ilm (Knowledge), 165 B.E. – Monday, October 20, 2008 about 4:13 PM Pacific Time

For the past two or three years change has been the motif of my life. Change and transformation accompanied by tests, difficulties and strife. The motif has not changed, all though this year the rhythm and speed of the change has become rather erratic.

Tomorrow I go back to work after five days off. I am going to walk to work because my car is still in the shop. I have no idea when the car will be fix and I am not going to call the mechanic until Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon. I am not crazy about walking to work because of the pain in my right knee, but I have no choice.

The site where I work is about a mile away from my house, while the bus stop is about half a mile away. In order for me ride the bus and get to work, I have to leave about two and a half hours before I have to be at work. I catch the bus and then I make a change. The problem is before I leave the house, I have to make sure Mom is up and has her pills laid out.

It is counter productive for me to leave the house two and a half hours early, while it is still dark out. Walk half a mile and wait for a bus that may or may not be on time and stop for me. If the bus is full the driver goes right by my stop without picking me up. Then I have to walk to work any way.

This is going to be an interesting day

Istijlál (Majesty), 13 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Thursday, October 9, 2008 about 5:18 AM Pacific Time



This is going to be an interesting and memorable day transformation wise. It's going to show me what I'm still capapble of doing. My car is setting in my drive way waiting for me to have it towed to a mechanic. Yesterday, on the way home it ran out of power; since it still has gas in the tank the problem is something else. There isn't enough power to start the car.



I'm planning on walking to work and home again, unless something drastic comes up or God has something else in mind for me. Walking is going to be a test because I have a knee that gives me problems. I don't think I have any other choice but to walk. I don't have an appointment with the doctor until October 28 at 3:00 PM so I'm just going to have to endure the knee for a while.



If I want to see the doctor before the 28th, I have to go to the clinic and wait. The one I usually see a doctor is across town. If I have too much of a problem, then I'll go to the one closest to me and see a doctor there, but I'll have to wait and I'll have to get there before (I think) 2:00 PM. I'll have to call the clinic and find out.