A Forty Pound Oops!

I was shocked!

They just sat, stolidly leaning up against the porch railings. Two twenty pound bags of potatoes ~ that I hadn’t ordered. I had only wanted two single potatoes.

Where were the rest of my groceries!? There was no obvious delivery person in sight. I didn’t know what to do. I had seen him come up to my front door, but by the time I got my mask on and opened the door, he was nowhere to be seen.

Trying to decide what to do, I breathed easier when he suddenly appeared carrying two more bags of groceries. Fortunately, he was a very nice young man. He did explain what was obviously my error. So rather than eating all things potatoes for the next month ~ breakfast, lunch and supper ~ I sent them back to the store for return or donation.

My error? I didn’t read the website closely enough!

“Mistakes aren’t mistakes; they are lessons!”

~ Israelmore Ayivor, Six Words Inspiration

Back Pocket Ideas

Just over three years into my retirement from nursing, I am getting restless. Life has been far from ordinary since February of 2019. Recently I've had a few curve balls thrown at me. As I listen to another news show, bake another loaf of bread, vacuum the rug and talk to myself - or the cat - my mind and my energy has slowed. 

It does take me back to preretirement discussions with colleagues about what we’d do, where we’d go or even how we’d manage without our careers of life times. There were lots of ideas floated, but then the telephone would ring. Ideas went in our back pockets to take home with us.

Now I think I’ll retrieve some of those ideas. What I do know for sure is that I still want to make a difference in someone’s life. There are two things that need my attention first: clearing up this most recent curve ball; and one more move that is really almost more exciting than the last. (Details to be released later.)

In the meantime, designing this part of my retirement will involve writing and researching some details. I’m really ready to involve myself in something greater than myself. 

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. 

And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”

~ Edward Everett Hale

To Live and Breathe

All around us

C19 floats on air

    invisible

      tasteless 

         odourless

wisps of deadly nothingness

Should we be terrified

afraid to breathe

    cornered?

      frightened?

         hesitant?

curling ourselves away from life?

Such unhappy thoughts 

have crossed many minds

   invisible

     tasteless

        odourless

just as deadly to our souls.

We need to breathe in ease and joy,

grateful for our very breath

   relaxed

     comfortable 

       resilient

opening up to life and living.

“The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.”

~ J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix