Letter to Doc

Dear Doc,

How are you? It’s been quite some time since you’ve heard from me, however I assure you that I have not forgotten either you or your small team. The three of you have been so patient with me as I put your story aside while I have developed other pieces of writing. When did I start your story? It would have been about 2006 or 2007. Many things that I have written have been about recovery from active addiction, but I have never mentioned the Medical Mobile Detox Service. There are so many stories I have written about what you encounter on the team’s travels, with you as the center, to the communities on your route out of the city. 

Any changes in your funding or routes, or other details of this Mobile Detox service have not yet been divulged to me. When I am back to writing about it again, I’m sure that ‘more will be revealed’. (I couldn’t resist a little quote from Bill W. which I know you enjoy.) I do hope that I can locate all the stories in my binders by my desk. I may not remember the actual words, but I do remember the wonderful characters that have peopled your world.

One writing project I have taken on is a blog.You know, similar to the one that you, Rod and Becky do for the M.M.D.S. higher ups. My blog is much less detailed and requires fewer clinical words. As I write this letter to you, it has occurred to me that the vignettes you are part of could be blog topics once a month for this timid author. My plan is possibly to use one of those stories as my blog post at the end of each month. What do you think?

I hope that this letter finds all of you well and that you have been safe in your travels.  

Hi to Rod and Becky.

Take good care all of you,

Susan

“The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion,

someplace, in the air.  All I must do is find it, and copy it.”

~ Jules Renard, “Diary”, February 1895

Reposting: Spontaneity

This is a repost from 2013. I have had only this one entry for spontaneity. There will be another post this evening, but I quite like this………

Spontaneity

A gust of wind

rustling leaves in trees

cobwebs and clouds blow away

Sudden sunshine 

brightening a dark patch of earth

opens blossoms ready for show

A bright butterfly 

flutters flower to flower 

drawing in life giving nectar

A flight of fancy

rides high above skies full of cloud

currents of heavy thought

Spirit’s gentle suggestion ~

step forward, open your hands, breathe deeply

and welcome your self into a colourful life.

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. 

Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality, 

let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

~ Lao Tzu

A New Pair of Boots

Far away memories of 

plain, black, serviceable

rubber boots wading through 

grassy frigid water filled ditches

cold deep mud puddles

slushy spring thaw snow

Strange.....

slowly slipping my feet in and out 

of new beautiful boots

trips a memory switch,

cracks open old fear ~

“Thick grey mud pressed 

in on my black rubber boots

protecting tiny socked feet

from cold wet mud.”

I’m a big girl now ~

kindly and with a smile

walking in my muddy garden

I am safe in my new pair of boots.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.