Well today was sort of a lost day. We sat around most of the morning checking email and other blogs etc etc. Mid morning we went for a nice walk - it started snowing which even tho I do not like snow it was lots of fun taking a nice walk in the snow!
We stopped off at our favorite coffee bistro ECCO - I got a medium mocha with 2 shots and Melissa only wanted a coffee.
We came home and napped most of the afternoon away!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!
One of the Yoga instructors at the studio where Melissa works and teaches was in a very bad auto accident a couple of days ago. She went up to the Sangre de Christo mountains last week on a really warm beautiful day to take a hike with her dog. The whole story is not fully known, but her water bottle fell onto the floor of the car and she bent down to pick it up.
Well in that brief moment the car went off the road and down into a ravine!!!! She was very badly injured - with 5 broken ribs and damage to her back. Her dog was severely injured as well.
Melissa is giving a 2 hour Yoga class tomorrow for donations with all money donated to go to the injured Yoga teacher - Jenise. The Yoga studio has started a campaign to raise $10,000 to help pay the rent and other incidentals. Jenise has no medical insurance and the medical costs are estimated to be astronomical - that of course is another entirely separate issue. She was having an operation on her back this afternoon and in a day or two they plan on putting steel plates onto her ribs.
Jenise makes her living by teaching Yoga - making and selling jewelry and massage therapy.
One brief moment of a lack of concentration and her whole life has changed.
Melissa hopes to raise several hundreds of dollars with donations tomorrow.
Say a prayer for Jenise - she will need all the prayers she can get - she has a long struggle ahead of her.
Stay safe my friends and count your blessings.
JR :>)
