On Being Mindful of My Capacity

Now, and moving forward into 2025.

Welcome to a relatively short post from me, with some news.

I’ve been writing on the ‘internet’ in a couple of on-line forms since December 2010 until now. From age 60 to 75.

And it’s been an awesome place for me to feel less isolated as a retired educator, then as someone who moved away from family and friends, and then had a few years managing a rare cancer diagnosis.

Smile, comparisions with my oral cancer, celebrating golden wedding anniversary, my teaching service medal and farewell.

In recent years I closed the blog, and before then the link up too which went for some years. I was a dedicated and committed community blogger as best as I could be.

And I got to meet some great people virtually and in real life at conferences and over coffee and more. Very grateful.

Blogging Meet Up centre: 2012, my 70th B'day 2019, & 2012 in Melbourne

On Being Mindful of My Capacity.

2024 was ‘brutal’ in terms of its emotional and physical impact on me. I won’t go into details but some relates to being a ‘feeling’ person and one who gives to others before herself.

I decided in 2025 I was changing.

I wrote this just two weeks ago:

About CAPACITY

C aring for me

A ccountable to me

P ausing for a while

A wareness is key

C ompassion for me

I t's about boundaries

T rue to my values

Y es, I am being mindful of my capacity in 2025.

And for this year, so far, I have been unwell…a virus that started in my throat back at the end of November, and lingers (they take ‘time’ to go) leaving me more than usually tired and achy. My old foe I.B.S. returned too. My emotions have been up and down relating to memories of a lot of family events, in particular, Dad’s 100th, then illness and death. My body, and mind remember.

And when I look at this words attached to the letters of CAPACITY I can see I need to change. My behaviours and my thoughts about what I do next.

Until at least March 2025.

I am having a break from connecting with others who blog and who write on substack in a formal way.

I am a person who must comment and share where I can when a link up is on.

I am not doing that now. I am giving myself a ‘time off’ .

I will still be checking out facebook, substack and instagram and likely sharing there too.

I will check in from time to time reading others’ words, of course, and from time to time I will likely write here.

I may not do any commenting.

I will still be checking out facebook, and instagram and likely sharing there too.

I hope you understand.

Doing a daily selfie for the record keeping this 75 year old!!

I do not underestimate the effects of becoming older…I did a 75 year check and memory test at my GP’s last week and I was fine…but, ageing affects us in many ways…

Thanks for being a reader and a subscriber too.

Denyse x

P.S. In case you are wondering, I have the best support in B, my husband, and I have lots of helping tools including meditation and a self care practice, art and nature to view, and my G.P. who has known me for decades.

I am aware that I need to allow T I M E to help me too, and that it eventually heals.