Day 9

After yesterday's overwhelmingly horrid day emotionally and feeling the need to go home, I can honestly say that my friend's and family's support and encouragement has seen me through it. I'm now back to usual ie tolerating the juices and joining in again and I don't want to leave any more, for now at least!

I didn't wake up today until 12.30pm and then read and lazed in bed until 5pm when I thought it was high time I emerged and did something. So I went down for a lovely swim in the lake, which was much calmer than of late. Others were 'rebounding' to some classical music and I could hear it down at the lake so I had a surreal but beautiful experience swimming surrounded by the wooded hills with Pie Jesu floating over me. C joined me and we saw a heron fly in and go fishing.

Then I chatted with some other retreaters and enjoyed a sauna session with one of them. 15 minutes in the sauna, 2 minutes in the pool, three times in total. Then it was an uplifting film called 'The Blind Side' which I had seen before but it was good to see it again.

It's been cooler today around 22C and cloudy but we're promised 28C again tomorrow and I'm looking forward to some more sunbathing.