Lost?

 

You can become lost in the physical sense, not knowing where you are such as taking a wrong turning on a map while hiking in which instance armed with map and compass you can work your way back.

Sometimes you may be lost because mentally and psychologically you feel alone with no one to care for and and no one caring for you which may be enhanced of those you knew appeared to have left.

Taking care of your emotional well-being matters and being alert to other peoples is something that is being encouraged more whatever the past emphasis on blind stoicism and endurance might of been.

It's not about in any way wallowing in self pity, it is understanding the emotions felt, working with them toward a way through that matters more.

Summer exploration

The Cub or for some of us Wolf Cub in spirit is active, keeping himself fit physically and mentally alert both indoors and out  even if as with yesterday I was restricted due to the torrential rain to where I could go and had to dry off.

The countryside is not a bowling green, flat and devoid of interest but has wild plants and flowers that support a rich environment with many insects which I have an interest in such as the white and red admiral butterflies that were dancing around me this weekend.

Wild flowers have always interested me from a boy from the poppies that grew on the now decommissioned mineral railway line that which just behind of our house and the along the paths and hedgerows of the farms nearby.

Carefully studying them, noting how they are growing the various species of insects around them is one way I keep my mental alertness up.