I am feeling autumnal. Lots of reasons, the weather, losing a friend, realising I have reached the age of responsibility and so on. But that doesn't mean to say I can't reach inside for the inner sunshine and energy to cling onto summer as long as I can - like this flower in my garden. And that is the thought for the day. I have been working out in the gym, peeling of the Kms and Kgs (well trying) and I already feel better for it. I am not generally unfit, just need to get back to the fighting weight after having spent six months repairing 'the leg'. Its repaired btw - not 100% but close, considering how bad it was - which I kept from everyone. But I find the general health and fitness helps with productivity and I get so much more done - and today I have much to do. I love this song from my spring days spent in the coal mining community of Newtongrange, thinking of Californian summers (which I managed to get this year) - I travel on in optimism:
