Random Friday

Posted By on August 13, 2010

This lovely photo showed up on my phone. On the small, square screen, I couldn’t tell what it was at first. After an initial gasp of sheer horror, I turned the phone upside down and discovered it was my child and Kitty. They are lovely–but scary.

There is rejoicing in my small corner of the world. The local Internet provider is burying cable outside our doors! We are going to have actual service. It’s true. The plan didn’t fall apart. In an unexpected show of customer service, the sales reps even went through the neighborhood to introduce themselves and their services. The woman I spoke to was startled that we greeted them as if they were mythical beings. We’ve been tapping out emails on stone tablets for four years!

More rejoicing. I live in a warm climate. (May have mentioned that in the past.) But even here, we don’t normally start May in the 90s and then ride them all the way to fall. Not so, this year. And we’re so humid, every day in the 90s means a day in a heat index of over 100. Today, we have rain and temps under 90 in the forecast. That seems mythical, too. I whine about the heat, but the truth is, I find it unbearable. It affects my mood, and if I’m not careful, my creativity. I have learned to be careful.

Nothing affects my creativity right now. Protecting it has been the lesson of putting together the many versions of this proposal. This is my livelihood, my joy, and my job. Sounds so not-what-it-is to call it a job. It’s what I look forward to at odd moments when I’m doing “regular” things, like washing dishes or sweeping the pool or thinking I ought to take care of that weedbed out front. (Thinking, only–those temps will need to plummet before I take action!) When the doubts start chewing away, I throw up a wall and ignore them. Overthinking has not been my friend.

I cut some words yesterday and added some, too. I’m editing–and adding today. I love writing. Love it. Gonna get back to it.

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