Being told no is a hurtful event, but sometimes it is necessary for personal growth.  I admit that I need to grow more and expand my vision and my possibilities.

"No" means "change" and change is painful, but it is something that must be done to survive.

I am in the part of summer where it is hot, and there is no escape except the air conditioned buildings I find myself inside.  This is the time of year when fights break out, tempers boil over, and tongues scorch targets with remarks that burn.

If these are the dog days of summer, someone has let slip the dogs of war.

I have a small brush burn on my left knee.  It is tiny, but it hurts quite a bit, despite how tiny it is.  It doesn't hurt as much as it did yesterday, but I can still notice it and feel it tingle when I move.

I am glad that this is the only acute ailment I have to mention. Many people deal with much worse on a daily basis.

Every Thursday that I am able to, I take time out of my day for a short, half-hour yoga session.  It is supposed to help me calm the mind and open up my body, and it does.

But the pain the next day is, to say the least, a burden.

I would think that even as infrequently as once-a-week, there would be some acclimation to the process over the years.  Muscles would get used to being used and grow stronger.  The concern I would have would be of reaching a plateau.  Instead, I cannot even rise enough to level off.  It does not get any easier, and the same familiarity that makes me wonder if the time I take out of my day could not be spent more wisely.

Good day, or good evening wherever you are when you read this.  I've had this nonsensical domain name for a while and I have decided to use it.  I might as well explain what the name means.  It means nothing, as in it has no meaning.

"Padayo Perdikio" a nonsense phrase I came up when hearing the bassline of one of tunes I heard repeatedly in my childhood.  As a kid, my ears were drawn to the bass of music to the point where I used to think the bassline was the main melody of the song, and so it was with this particular tune.  This song had no lyrics, so I made some up off the top of my head.

Eventually, I made up words for the the repetitive melody as well.  I used to sing, "I get what I deserve most of the time.  I get what I deserve most of the time.  90% of the time, 80% of the time, 70% of the time, 60% of the time, 50% of the time, 40% of the time, 30, 20, 10, and 1 percent of the time."

Yes, they were atrocious lyrics, but the phrase "padayo" stuck with me.

It's pronounced pah-DAY-oh, for anyone who is interested in how it would sound.  Or you can listen to the sound clip (and the sung version).