A long day today and I could be negative and post the photo of my AirNZ app telling me my plane was delayed by an hour (which then turned out to be an hour and a half!). But I had a beautiful start to the day with a walk up to the Botanics to see the sun rise over the city. We came back down through the Old Settler’s cemetery. One day I’ll go there when I am not in a rush to explore further. It’s a fascinating place.
Beautiful light down at the lake this morning. Forced to walk after my calf muscle pinged, I took the time to look around me more closely and take more photos than usual. Hard to decide which to choose but went for the moment when the sun rose. I love the way the light changes when the sun rises..that transition from dawn to day, from softness of light to brightness.
I nearly didn’t go for a run this morning. Lots to do before getting to the edchatnz conference and feeling very sad after last night’s news. But I’m glad I did. I’ve decided that my hash tag for the day is going to be #theworldisbeautiful.
I made sure that I took the time this morning to notice the little things. The things that we take for granted. The things that we forget when we are bogged down in other “stuff” over which we have no control. I cannot possibly understand how desperate and sad someone must feel to want to leave our beautiful world. But it happens far too often to far too many young men especially in NZ. My heart is heavy. But our world is beautiful. We should hold on to that.
Didn’t sleep well and woke up far earlier than I had intended so went for a walk down to the beach. What a glorious sunrise.
Next stop: Gisborne. Yesterday we drove through beautiful countryside to Gisborne. I really will have to come back and explore this area more. Lytton High School made us extremely welcome at their staff meeting and we had some great discussions after our “eduignite” style presentations.
