My stomach twists
when I feel my age -
at least my body’s age;
my mind juggles all the
what if’s and want to’s
that jostle for attention.
Age just keeps aging!
Want to’s take energy.
Makes things a bit off kilter.
So I’ll just march on
even if it is a bit slower
~ some days.
“As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.”
~ Doris Lessing, author
(1919 ~ 2013)
Everything went sideways ~
that’s what happened one
yesterday, or maybe more,
those sideways days ~ just
cracks in days planned to flow gentle as a summer river
interrupted by a summer storm. What are sideways things? In the middle:
dropping a glass container
that shatters!
or spilling a dish of water
(the floor needed washing anyway)
or the dreaded hairballs that must be cleaned up1
There are many little everythings like that
outside the order of the day’s plan.
Words coloured violent blue assault the air.
’til everything’s righted with brooms, rags and lysol.
“Anything and everything you can think of can turn your life around.”
~ Nik Halik, astronaut, entrepreneur
one of those days
heavy
sluggish
With a to-do list
not so long
nothing earth shattering
clutter and numbers to deal with
But on one of these days
when I want to push it all aside
I begin with breakfast and a nap
‘til a fragile bit of energy
lets me address the numbers
the clutter much later …………
“The most radical act is sometimes to refuse to be hurried.”
~ Lawrence Nault, Canadian author and filmmaker
