Embracing the Possible in Everyday Ramblings

This picture is a mood piece that indicates how I am feeling right now. Pared down to the bare structure of things. Cold and bone weary of winter, old and, honestly, a bit worn out. So it is great that I am just finishing up the Penelope Lively book that talks about how now at 80, her 60 looks pretty good in retrospect.

I am so glad you all liked the marsh picture from the previous post. It is one I took just a few weeks ago before the big storm and to my eye it was a beautiful landscape. And I don’t know what the colored brush is but I bet Flagman does. I’ll put it up on the Meander blog and see if he responds.

My oldest sister is through her first week of chemo and radiation and is doing okay. She is tired of course and that will get more challenging but she seems in fairly good spirits.

One of my former roommates (and friend with benefits until he met his current wife who was a good match but is the jealous type) has had the opportunity to be involved in the mammoth tusk find up in Seattle. He is a Paleontologist now. (He was one then too in the way he lived his life and his interests, he just didn’t have a degree then.)

Mr. Paleontologist had this very unusual mother. He so got this from her, an extraordinary woman who was the biggest influence on my oldest sister’s life as a young woman and mother. And because I lived with my sister, she had an influence on me as well.

Sammy would love this guy. I was telling him that while giving him fluids today.

Kes and Most Honorable will be here in a few hours so we can have that birthday dinner out we missed. I am very much looking forward to seeing them because due to the storm the only folks I have interacted with consistently over the last week are my coworkers and I haven’t had any time with anyone relatively normal to balance them out. It was a forgone conclusion no one would come to yoga on a Valentine’s Day evening that was also on a Friday.

What I have discovered recently is that if I don’t have this kind of balance in my life I get rather, well, Princess like. This is good to know. I am going to see what I can do to shift that balance in the next year or so. I’d prefer not to have a repeat on this last week emotionally if I can help it.

The one person I was absolutely sure I wouldn’t hear from at all yesterday (Valentine’s Day) was Mr. Fine China. He wouldn’t want anyone (including him or me), to think he actually cared for me. That just wouldn’t do at all. And I actually understand this.

We are having a steady almost spring like rain. The sparrows are singing up a storm.

Literally I think.

But at least it is possible to be out and about.