The Awesomeness of the Day
Sometimes it is hard to realize just
how wonderful everything can be, at least for a moment if we are lucky. I really dislike not feeling well and I
succumbed to the insidious yuck that has been attacking everyone around
me. I put up a good fight but in the end
on a Friday morning after taking my bath, eating my granola with almond milk
poured over it, I put back on my white flannel nightgown with the little angels
dancing all over it. After being cuddled
in its warmth, I called my supervisor, left a message on the main phone at work
and went to bed to sleep after I had worked on stopping the faucet that was my
nose long enough to crawl into the comfort that was my bed. I slept all day getting up to eat some soup that
my husband bought home from the Co-op. I
asked for two containers of soup whatever they had and was content to eat one
for lunch and one for dinner.
I really was out of it because I do
not nap during the day, nope, can’t, though there are times when I see my man
snoozing on the floor with a sneaker under his head at any time of the day that
leaves me wishing that I could sink into the depths of sleep so easily as well. I can try it by crawling into my bed,
snuggling under various quilts and knitted panels of love crocheted into a warm
cream threaded afghan but as I rest there, my mind travels rapidly onto the
oddest things, like the endless calculating of how quickly I can pay off my house,
whether or not the 9.0 earthquake will hit before I get the house paid off and
how will the insurance work with no place to be. Yes, I have earthquake insurance. If the big one hits I will have no water, no sewer, no power and no pot to piss in but I have insurance.
I have found it difficult to get
back into writing this piece which I started in March 2015 and now it is June
2015. The only reason that I am sitting
here in front of my computer with fingers on the keyboard is that my husband
has told me that it is time to blog hence the writing of whatever comes into my
mind. Oh, yes, the fact that I have peanut
butter cookies to look forward to is extremely motivating. Just maybe it is good to take time off from a
project to have a chance to look at where you might be going with it. This whole blog has been a project, a way to
work on my writing, trying different things, combining essays, poetry, and
storytelling into a workable method of communicating ideas that frequently pop
into my mind.
Back to when I was sick, I was near
frantic with hoping to get rid of the grunge before traveling to see my younger
sister who was at the time diagnosed with ALS.
Fortunately, I was able to travel, able to visit various family members,
returning home with a sense of gratitude that my little woe of a week in bed
was just that a week of being stuck in the house, unable to go to work, see
friends, or do anything except for resting in the bed. But seeing my family gave me a great sense of
well being, thankfully my younger sister has a new diagnosis, it is at least,
something that we can all live with a bit of hope as the doctors now believe that
she has a form of Parkinsonism that is treatable though she will still have
many difficulties in just getting though a day of living. I found out that we are all suffering from
many different ills but are still moving around or trying to as we wake up in
the morning to greet the awesomeness of the day.
Really, it is all that we really can
do, isn’t it?
