5- Monday Moments (Week 189) Featured Sunset. Hay Hay. Mindfulness. What's in your Toolbox? Dessert.

Featured Sunset

Hot Spot

(taken @ 8:15 pm August 15, 2024)

The simple life

Hay hay!

Who needs the weather channel?

Farmers know as haying is their livelihood.

If you see that hay has started to be baled, you know you probably have 3-4 dry days ahead.

Mindfulness

Why I relearned to love Tai Chi

In my 30's my friend Greg B. and I enrolled in a Taoist tai chi program and learned all 108 moves from Master Moy Lin-Shin.

Life got very busy and I eventually dropped my daily practice of tai chi.

Fast forward to my 50's when I worked in Bejing on and off for a year, I would notice men and women who would gather in loose formation, and begin to move with slow thoughtful deliberation in unison.Their actions combined to achieve a meditative dance.

I recently reactivated my interest in tai chi to achieve

• strength (without having to use any other apparatus)
• balance (necessary as we age)
• another form of meditation.
• and most important memory (108 moves)

Photo from Globe and Mail July 22 2024 Heather Avery

Dessert

Peach Galette

This galette is perfect in every way, with a buttery, flaky crust and juicy cinnamon dusted peaches.