I can't believe it is a week since I landed back in Muscat after a mega-flight. It is always when one is in the biggest hurry to get home, that the journey seems to drag on for infinity!We circled endlessly for 30 minutes above Dubai before a runway was free. Then after taking on the passengers for the last leg to Muscat and taxi-ing for 15 minutes ( I had joked to the students that we were being driven home), we were called back becuase of problems with a tyre. I was ready to go balmy.
In any case, safely back home, great to be in my purple palace with my kitties. Straight into the deep end of beginning of academic year chaos, too many students, not enough books, wrong levels, too much admin. But it is great to see my colleagues that I missed through the summer, and I will readily admit that I always miss being in front of a class once I have been away for a few weeks. I am very fortunate to say that I really enjoy what I do for a living.
It has been a frustrating and tiring week, but also a week of much hope and joy. I am deeply happy to spend time with my rosepetal man again. He is in a good space with himself and gave me the warmest homecoming. The space between us is playful and peaceful and I look forward to being in the magic dunes with him tomorrow. I am sure the dust will settle there and I will find rest.
I am trying a new yoga group. It is unlike anything I have done before. It is loud and a little chaotic and the teacher is a real livewire, joking with us, pushing us. She said something in the final meditation which really got me through this week- "words of fire" my mother would have called it. " As you breathe.... CHARGE YOUSELF WITH GOODNESS...
Those words have been the perfect fulcrum for my week, I play them in my mind and breathe and imagine myself becoming more grateful, more clean inside, more humble, yes, just better.. more good. My wish for us: May goodness pervade our lives as we breathe, and may we always feel secure in that.
