I Love You, Kindle Fire

I was lying on my bed, trying to stretch out my back. Pillow under my head and a pillow under my knees. And I was reading books about blogging on my Kindle Fire. I accomplished something in time that would have been wasted. So I love my Kindle Fire.

Someone said, "Do the thing for which you have infinite patience." I used to feel that way about tech writing, and I feel that way about some aspects of my librarian job. I think that I'm on the right track with the travel business because I could read about it all day. (Or write about it all night.)

I did do some Google Trends searches on my Kindle, and unfortunately, searches on most travel topics is down--except for solo travel, which is trending up. It's one of the niches that I wanted to cover, so that's good at least. Hmm, I should have tried "budget travel". I just did, and it's WAY down. I don't get what's going on.

Self-Care

My back was hurting today too, so I lay on the floor post-dinner, stretching my back, and meditating. I'm not sure what I did, but my body feels very relaxed and non-ouchy. (I do know that I harbor a lot of tension in my body.) I've been enjoying it.

I thought, then, about continuing with the Humane Society if I can fix what it does to my body. But then I read a forum that I occasionally skim about people with depression who work in academia, and they were talking about self-care. Deciding that my volunteer work is no longer working for me is not necessarily bad. I think that my life is moving in another direction.

Along those lines, I ordered a library book about the Feldenkrais method, which is a way of learning to move without tension in your body. I think working on that and core exercises would do me a world of good in a bunch of ways. (And yes, I've tried yoga, and it isn't for me. I would join a tai chi class if I could find a local one.) I think I'll get the book about stretches for 50 + people as well.