moves 11/23/25

 Tonight I did:

-- swinging arms in front of body, around body

- cat/dog pose 20 times

- warrior pose

- short foot, pulling towel, foot stretch on stairs, toe spreading, one repetition of raising up feet from toes and balls of feet

- total of 20 to 30 minutes walking, but not all at once

(things to consider next time: crab pose -either one; right hand side pull leg to chest; table psoas stretch; diaphragmatic breathing)

Commentary: important to listen to self and not extend beyond a conservative series of moves. 

Upon finishing my exercise exercises and this entry, I tried to think of a proper image, and somehow the blue rider group name occurred to me. A glimpsed the Kandinsky symbolist painting from 1903 called the Blue Rider. And I looked through other work by the group that would take on the name of that painting. However, I ended up opting for a much more recent image, by the artist Omar Mahfoudi, a work named The Blue Rider - though this one is done simply with ink on paper. The work appeals to the hope I am generating in order to move forward. Beautiful blue forest, beautiful blue horse with rider.