Nature can still make me catch my breath. These images are of some of the magical places in Switzerland that I revisit mentally in times of stress.....Yes, I'm slightly stressed, so instead of reaching for food, I'm using imagery to coax my brain into releasing more endorphins!
I can vividly recall the fresh, damp scent that filled my nostrils, the crisp breeze against my skin and my feelings of absolute serenity and awe as I first stood at these locations to record their splendour on camera.
The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown
I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. ~Henry David Thoreau
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
How do you relieve stress, or are you the laid-back type who always goes with the flow?
Thank you for
your kind offers to exchange hair and also for your wonderful comments about hair
behaving badly (Bad Hair Days....Months....Years) Most
reassuring. Perhaps the grass
always appears greener on the other side?
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| Michael Leunig |
Swapping my
tangled mass for very straight locks is appealing…I would be able to jump out
of bed and go for a jog or whiz to the shops for an ‘emergency litre of milk' without having to first douse my frizz in water and apply product…..a real challenge in the depths of winter!
Would I switch
my voluminous mop with Annie’s
(Plum Siena) very fine, very straight hair? Surely this option must be better than having a cranial duvet,
especially in the hot summer months when I am too vain to be shorn in order to
keep cool?
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| Courtsey Google Images* |
The problems of
humidity, greying, "texture", hairdressers who don’t listen and actually finding a hairdresser
who can cut well, appear to be universal.
As Karin (La Pouyette) observed, "whatever country, Germany, London, France... hairdressers are
the same all over! Nobody seems to be concerned about the days of depression
after a coiffure visit".....For me it has been years of emotional "ups and downs" at the hands of hairdressers.
For anyone
thinking about a career move, there appears to be a professional niche waiting to be filled by psychologists
specializing in “hair trauma”.
Post script:
Please visit the comments to last week's blog, Bad Hair Days....Months....Years - very entertaining and so true.....and sometimes a touch sad (to which I can relate.)
Courtsey Google Images* - if you are the owner of this image, please notify me so you can be acknowledged.
