Memory Lane

Kelowna Farmers Market 2008

Memory lane ~

always populated with 

smiling faces and scenes. 

Opportunity swirled me 

back to my Texas journey; 

onward to my Kelowna years 

at Hazeldell Orchards. 

Feeling Lubbock's hot dry air, 

hearing and seeing tones of a

another land; the warm hearts 

of colleagues in a golden time. 

I could feel the carpeted halls,

step inside the curve of the 

nursing station, as crowded 

and busy as my memories

In Kelowna, air was moist and cool, 

pears and apples were juicy and crisp

at my weekend ‘job’ where 

the hearts were just as warm ~

a time when my nursing work 

was set aside for a few days, 

or a month, to live, laugh and 

work outside while seasons changed.

Memory lane ~

always populated with 

smiling faces and scenes. 

“Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.”

~ Doug Larson, columnist & editor

(1926 - 2017)

Being

 

To know one’s being after

all the glorious mess of a day 

is to allow it to blossom

in the quiet of the evening.

“Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.”

~ Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

There is a Purpose

Procrastination: 

“the act of delaying 

something that must be 

done often because it is 

unpleasant or boring” ~

Cambridge online dictionary

        ~~~~~~

Dust has been banished, 

soap scum put in it’s place ~ 

down the drain, 

mirrors polished, 

floors devoid of cat hair, ……

and all the while I wondered:

“What are you procrastinating about? 

You dislike finicky housework?”

Not the first time with the puzzle, 

but now I know. 

I know that problems need sorting. 

The sorting that arises from

 the act of ‘finicky cleaning’

You may laugh, 

you may guffaw, 

you may snort in disgust 

but I see my thoughts 

attached to the vacuum, 

the rag that scrubs grime, 

the folding of stray tablecloths

until I have an orderly list of to do’s.

Tax time is always confusing!

“Organizing is what you do before you do something, 

so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”

~ A.A.Milne