Walter Sisulu Botanic Garden

I so enjoyed the Botanical Garden yesterday.

I especially loved the kiss of the breeze wafting past my face.

I enjoyed hearing the trees rustling.

I enjoyed breathing the fresh air.

It was really good to be there.

 

I know I do better when I make the time, take the time, to go there every week.

I love the new green all around.  I am thirsting for the rains to come!

 

In the picture below I loved the beauty of the dead and decaying with

the young and alive alongside.

I always enjoy seeing one of the tortoises in the garden.

This is one of the younger ones.

 

I also enjoyed our Tai Chi group. 

When I go to the class several of the participants want me to take the lead.

I don't want to do that. 

I take the lead in a lot of areas of my life.

In this Tai Chi area I know I am like the blind leading the blind.

I do the best I know...

but!  I do not go to a reliable source to keep authentic input.

I agreed to work with one of the 'younger' ones

- she in the front, and me at the back.

That worked well. 

When we faced the one way she was the lead, when we turned around I was the lead. 

I was comforted afterwards to know she goes to the class

of the man who started our group about... twenty years ago?

I have been going to the class about 14 years. 

Fresh in-put there from an authentic practitioner. 

I can live with that!