Sunday Winter Musings
Sundays stretch out. They are a day that can feel like a warm hug or they can be a marathon of hours to be endured until sleep welcomes you back. During a typical work week, whether we are in the office or working at home or living as a digital nomad, with kids or without, the hours, the minutes are filled up with things that need to be done. For some, Sundays is just another work day, and for shift workers as an example their ‘Sunday’ might be on what the rest of the world considers Tuesday, but this post is about a Sunday state of mind, no matter what the day.
What is your Sunday state of mind? There is no right or wrong answer but I woke up today anticipating a day of homework with just 4 months to finish in a 2 year Masters Progam there are few ‘days of rest’ to come, but that was a choice. It led me to thinking about other Sundays of mine and others. For some, it is church and lunch to anticipate, whether your church is in a building, online or a walk in nature. For others it is exercise, for me, usually mid-morning yoga or what I think of as the weekly long stretch in the dark where someone tells me how to move which I find oddly relaxing. For many years Sundays meant a sports game or tournament, getting everyone bundled up and out the door. It might be the day to hit the slopes or trails, catch up, meal plan, do all the little things that cleanse your home and soul.
Sundays can also mean a new experience, like this one above where we had cheese fondue in a snowcave (Davos) or trying a new place for brunch, or Dim Sum, the Chinese answer to brunch. It could be a new hike or snowshoe, or for those on vacation a walk with your toes digging into sand instead of snowboots. Winter Sundays may mean a blanket and a book, catching up on all the sports, a good movie and afternoon popcorn and trying out that new recipe for a hearty soup or stew, and maybe even breaking out that pandemic induced sourdough bread recipe to make a bowl to serve it in!
Sundays may also be the loneliest day of the week. Lonely is a feeling anyone can feel. Loss of some magnitutude of awful can leave a vacuum in our souls. When combined with time to think, feel all the feels and not have the daily distractions it can make Sunday feel like too much. It might lead to deep inertia where everything is too heavy to move. It might cause you to fill up the day with chores or exercise to exorcise, or too indulge too much in foods that bring comfort (over nutrition) and it might give you time to reflect. It offers time to breathe, to feel gratitude for what matters to you and to remember that for all the hard days there will be good days to come.
Today I will listen to the gorgeous Leanne Velky who is breakout out of herself on her brand new podcast and see that this Sunday brings. What will you do?
