Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I know, it looks like that, freed from last month’s “write something daily” promise, that I am now taking the opportunity to write nothing at all. But that’s not really the case! In fact, I missed sitting down at the keyboard and whining about having to write something. But, I couldn’t (well, not really).

It’s like this – well, I can’t remember what happened on the 1st, but something did… what knocked it all out of my mind was yesterday morning, my daughter showed up at my apartment and almost fell in the door… she looked really dreadful, too. She had a high fever and lots of pain in her side but still she didn’t want to go to the doctor. I insisted, though, calling 911 because I had to watch her children and there was really no easy way for me to drive her to the hospital and I didn’t really want to anyway, with her rolling around and groaning in pain. Especially if it was appendicitis or something – better to leave all that to the professionals.

Anyway, off she went in the ambulance and, after many hours and tests, it turns out she has a severe kidney infection. She’ll be okay after a round of medication but in the meantime my house has just been full of people – daughter, her kids, my mom, the cat – and I have so little time and space to do anything that I’ve essentially just been taking care of people.

And jotting down (handwritten) notes for a book idea. I don’t have a clue how to write a book, but the stories keep coming to me, based off my great-great uncle Louis, so I thought I’d write them down and see what comes of it. I think it will be fun to try.

Once  I get a little bit of time and space, that is.

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