edging towards spry
My first expand-your-vocabulary class took place in church. My family attended every Sunday, and the Christian (specifically Presbyterian) hymns I grew up singing are imprinted on my brain. I was an early reader, so from the age of four, I first read, then memorized the words to countless hymns after repeatedly singing them over 17…
my mini-sabbatical from posting
It’s been three months since I posted. I miss writing. Several times a day, I begin composing mentally, but the words never get to print. I’m having my second knee replacement on March 9, and the last couple of weeks, I’ve been trying to do everything I’ve been putting off, so my time has been…
humility / hubris
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) excerpt from “Song of Myself, 51” by Walt Whitman I am not a fiction writer. For me, writing is not creative; I guess I’m boringly reality-based (and perhaps somewhat self-centered). I started this blog to recount what’s going on…
stimulation / silence
Wednesday, December 7, 2021 I’ve been remarkably contented lately despite choices I’m making that would, at one time, have sent me into a downward spiral of guilt. So either I’m becoming self-actualized or I’ve seriously lowered my standards for myself. I’m OK with either—it’s such a relief to be letting myself be. I have become…
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