A Laundry List of Interests...

Which shall I choose? 

I've been in contact with several family members today

the electronic age making it possible via

email

texting

Facebook

Nothing earth shattering - just ordinary living questions that keep us all connected.

Writing? 

A creative bent, developing in fits and starts for many years,

today took up a new challenge by trying on a new technique in shaping words for my addictions nursing project, one I've been working on for years - a page long poem sent off to one of my writing coaches for evaluation.

Then it's on to my Addictions Nursing career (the writing project mentioned above).

After over forty-five years in nursing, twenty-five of them in addictions care in detox, I'm continuously fascinated by the changes, courage and choices I have witnessed in nursing, and medicine, but most of all in those individuals addicted to substances, both in active addictions and those in recovery.

But then maybe I should write about my upcoming travels.

I am so ready for a vacation!

Can hardly wait to see my brother and his wife.

And feel the heat!  It's 46C there today!  Here today at my kitchen window:  9C

I can feel the heat already.

No, I think I'll take a look at the next on the list

Ah...Gardening! - any part of gardening is my 'thinking time'

Pulling weeds, getting the soil ready to plant,

Freeing the grape hyacinths so their little purple heads can get some air.

I find lots of ordinary things - broken glass, old rusty nails, bottle caps, an occasional coin,

but this year I found beautiful camellias when 

an unnamed bush in the yard introduced itself to me in bright fuchsia flowers.

The snow drops are gone but the daffodils are putting on a marvelous show!

Books....I have them stacked all over the house

in boxes and on any flat surface that will hold them

Books for fun, books for study,  journals full of thoughts

Too much there to talk about tonight.

And housework...I have written about housework.

Housework can involve procrastination for me,

but I've found I like to live, and work, in a clear and clean space.

Let's my head think more clearly.

It all does come down to choices.

Which do I want.

Which do I need.

How do they flow together

making my daily life a pleasant tapestry?

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal

 it is which never entrusts his life to one hole only.

-  Plautus