Medicine Ball

It was so crispy, windy, sunny and cool today, with shapely occasional clouds.  My kind of weather!  It sort of felt like being in the high Sierra’s.  The beauty of the day sharply contrasted the dismal news of the war and all the corruption surrounding the current administration.  How to hold both?

During strength training I threw this supper heavy 'core medicine ball' down on the ground 8 X for 3 reps.  The second round of eight reps I imagined plummeting Rump.  It helped rally the energy to smash the ball down hard but it felt so out of character and strangely violent.  So, on the third round of eight, I tried to imagine throwing the heavy ball at God.  I wanted to see if I could detach from the idea of good and bad.  I couldn’t.  I absolutely could not throw the ball at my imagined God and went back to the red tie guy to finish my task.

Today I hiked with the 17lb pack and it went really well.  I think I like caring weight, strangely. On Monday I will add 5lbs if things are still feeling good.

I worked on yesterdays painting and have decided it is not finished yet, just playing around. I'm noticing just this moment it looks like the medicine ball made an appearance in the painting. Tomorrow the art group is meeting.  I feel like I do not have anything I am looking forward to showing.  Thats okay.   BTW, after today, eight days remain for this round of 100 days of the art process documentation.

Updated photo with more balls.