Posts Tagged ‘#life’
Nothing to say…
I have written three blogs in the last three days and yet I can’t seem to get any of them to the point where I feel good about posting them.
Choices
All of my life I have been too busy. Too busy to notice that I had a choice in my busyness. I had instead gotten on a conveyor belt of “I have to’s” and “I should do’s,” showing up at the airport each week fully packed out of a rote set of tasks that I no longer had to even think about, I just did.
Read MoreHard work and asking for help!
The call came Friday, my husband’s doctor’s nurse, I got excited, I thought she was calling with a surgery date, finally, we could get on the road to healing. Instead she said, “so what was his quit date?” I said, “What do you mean?” She said, his last day smoking, I said that he had smoked the day before so I guess it will be today if it has to be. She explained that in order to get his surgery authorized there needed to be 6 weeks of no smoking.
Read MoreGrandmother
My grandmother passed in 2004, from a sudden heart attack in the hospital. At the age of 80, she had actually worked that day. She was always working, my grandmother was. When I was younger, she was a bank branch manager.
Read MoreI Believe…
I believe in rocking chairs & afternoon naps.
I believe in red roses being a message of passionate love.
I believe in days at the beach and floating on the ocean while making a story up on the shapes of clouds.
I believe in health care for all and life is to be lived without struggle.
Read MoreQuestioning Last Week
Last week I was getting to know my kitchen again after years of only visiting to make coffee and weekend breakfasts. I spilled something on the counter and just like the commercials have told us to do, I reached for the roll of paper towel, but I stopped short, somehow that roll of paper towel now seemed extravagant, like an unnecessary luxury. I grabbed for a sponge instead wiping up the spill and rinsing it back out again. Last week, I stopped using paper towel altogether.
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