Going To Seed in Everyday Ramblings

Before I moved here I had no idea what artichokes look like when they go to seed even though I spent a big chunk of my life living in California. I took this a few days ago. It is of a Waldorf School garden in the old Jewish Women’s Center building from the late 1800’s a few blocks from where I live.

I imagine the Jewish women had a garden close by too.

I need a business manager. I am procrastinating on finding a studio to teach in for the fall. And all you have to do here is look out the window to realize the seasonal change is already unfolding. Wow. It is not even the end of July yet!

The truth is that I am tired. Sort of big tired. I am having trouble at work too. Just can’t build up any enthusiasm for anything in particular though I keep clocking in and doing what needs to be done.

There are some management changes in play that don’t bode well for my future in this job. We’ll know more on Monday.

I want to teach in the fall. I enjoy it and find it gives me energy but right now all the pieces of the marketing puzzle seem beyond me. All I want to do is drift a bit and have fun and do intellectual “stuff”.

We have another three-day weekend scheduled away at the Oregon Coast in late October but that is three months from now.

I am tired now.

Really. I have nothing to complain about. I have a luxurious life compared to the vast majority of women on this planet.

This feeling I am experiencing may have something to do with Sammy, who had a very restless night last night and decided to share it with me. The hairball on the bed at 4AM… He also has developed an intermittent wheeze that seems to come on when he is excited or, sadly, purring. It is like he has to breathe through his mouth and it is labored like kitty asthma.

So we’ll be going to the vet soon. If it is fluid in his lungs then well, it will be time. The prospect of that is enough to make anyone tired.

But it is Friday and after a very cool and damp week watching the trees starting to turn the sun is out. And I will be too soon.

And I do have an easy relaxed weekend on the horizon. Ah.