It's so important to find new ways to feed yourself other than with food - to serve your senses, the humanity of your body in ways that nourish it safely.
I was given a garden-grown rose this week as a thank you. It smells utterly divine.
Another gardening friend gave me a bunch of spring flowers from her garden, ranunculus and roses, a riot of colour, a feast for the eyes.
Over the weekend I'm going to do some housework, sorting things out a bit and putting things in order.
In their different ways, these all feed the senses and nurture daily life. Mindfulness is part of it, but there's more. It's another daily challenge of diabetes, to replace long term habits which are no longer sustainable as strategies for nurturing, with new habits that are both effective and can, in their turn, be long term.
I'll go smell that rose again. It's almost fully out, and will soon start dropping its petals.
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