4 posts tagged “playful”
I am not really that blue, but Mr. Lavender went back to work today. sigh.... I loved spending so much time with him this last week. We has so much FUN! I loved every moment. I know it seems silly or strange to some, but we have been together for over 14 years now, and we still cannot get enough time together. We love being with each other, we have the same sick sense of humor. We just don't get sick of each other, really! So our first outing was in Portland. Here are a few photos of our time there with Heartshaped Sky and her LOVELY family!
I talk a pretty big game, it is time for me to live up to this playful attitude I keep speaking of. The kind of playfulness my soul wants to come out, even though sometimes I just don't feel like it. I took a walk yesterday, and I really do not have a destination in mind, I just go up and down random streets and allies. Just really let my heart guide where I end up. My goal is to be in the sun for at least 20 minutes to soak in some vitamins and get my legs moving in hopes of gaining more energy (the laundry is piling up). So I ended up in a park that I have played in for my whole life. The wading pool, a small cement rectangle dry with leaves in it, I can remember feeling like I could swim in there when I was really just crawling on the bottom. I also brought my nephew there on our Monday we spent together. There are playground equipment not there anymore, deemed unsafe for todays children, would not want them to skin a knee, or bruise a shin or get a goose egg rising painfully from the skull. These things taught us what out bodies could and could not do, anyway, the park. It was empty, the hill I used to roll down is so much smaller that I remember, the smell of Pizza Haven is now replaced by an Italian place, and my favorite thing is still there. The swings.
I think I will make some banana bread.
Childish= see the reflection of somebodies shoes on the wire?
I am guilty of childish behavior, as are you. : ) (I tend to whine sometimes, believe it or not, that is hard for me to confess) Acting like a child throwing fits, whining, pouting, etc. not very attractive on an adult, I am guilty of all of them. Try to recognize it and phase it out, getting older does not mean you cannot play anymore, NO! Play!
Here is a list to get started, if you do something that is not on the list, Add It! Child Like suggestions ALWAYS welcomed!
I strive to do something Child Like every day. Keep that sense of Play important in your life.
*bring sidewalk chalk on your walk and write inspirational or thought provoking quotes in your neighborhood
*Splash in puddles! The sound of your feet kitting the water and the joy of seeing all of those drops displaced into the air
*wear roller skates while you clean up the kitchen and do the dishes (mopping is hard, but it can be done)
*I wear brightly striped socks every day, sometimes they match, sometimes they do not
*tennis shoes with dresses
*your body is a canvas, have FUN with your clothes!
*sing along with the radio and dance wildly
*buy yourself those stickers you think are cute at Target, stick them everywhere a little Goo gone will remedy any changes of heart
*jump rope and try to do some tricks like you did when you were 10. Not only is it good exercise, but it is fun too
*bounce a ball, hear the hollowness inside as it hits the ground
*use dry erase markers and write funny things on your bathroom mirror, or inspirational things
*pick a bouquet of dandylions
*stop and look for 4 leaf clovers (I have quite a few)
*smell those flowers to see if they smell as good as they look
*swing on the swings at the park (but wait your turn)
*build castles in the sand
*buy childrens books even though you do not have children
*color with crayons, make a pattern of circles and color them each a different color. And go ahead and buy the big pack with the crayon sharpener in the back even though it never works as well as you want it to
*cartoons are not just for kids! It is comedy!
*dance at a concert or at the street fair, if the music makes your body want to move, then Move It! who cares what you look like, unless you dance like Elaine, never mind Even if you dance Like Elaine!
Try to do something fun every day, even if it is small. Let your inner child come out and play.
I went for a walk as usual today.
As soon as I felt the sun on me I felt so alive.
Every step I felt more like a playful fairy than my 34 year old self.
It might have been the sun
or the sound the sidewalk chalk made in my sweatshirt pocket.
Maybe it was the magic the chalk held over me.
I got to the park and started around the path.
Every step sounded like my feet were holding back a little girls giggle.
I smiled wide to myself.
I leaned down and wrote on the path
"you are B (I did not leave myself enough room to write beautiful) Brave"
I walked away feeling lighter, my steps were quick and I bent down again, chalk dry in my hands
"Play!"
I felt like I was getting away with something, looking sneakily around me.
Smiling bigger to myself, feeling even more impish I got on my knees and drew a very large hopscotch
I ran out of orange chalk by writing "jump" at the beginning
My body felt larger than my skin, like I was glowing.
I am halfway through the park now, again I write in blue
"you ARE worth the effort"
More quick steps... tap, tap, tap go my shoes
Am I dancing? my insides were, my feet were making the sounds
was I giving myself away as the sidewalk chalk graffiti fairy?
" find beauty in everyone, even you"
I find myself by the childrens play area
3 parents watching 5 children, they do not see me
I quickly write "find the child in you"
I take large fast steps away, giggling inside, the giggle I heard before that I thought were my feet
It was me.
My blue chalk almost gone, last one in my pocket.
By the bench I write " you ARE beautiful"
on my way to the start I have enough for one more
"Amaze yourself"
Now I walk around and around marveling at my own playfulness
Jumping the hopscotch all 3 times around
Secretly wanting to see the other people do the same
I was feeling tired, but light, like I could literally float home
So I floated home.
Now I feel really hungry..............giggle
