Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count. And I found myself needing to change it recently to add details.

As you can see I made quite a lot of progress this week. unfortunately Much of it was yesterday and today I am feeling like I have overdone.

I am still healing. Yesterday I felt better than I have in at least the last three years. So, I fixed breakfast. I body doubled so my son could get some dishes done. I sat with him to help him do a chore I promised to do myself 3 months ago and flaked on. I was up and out of the bed all day. Which felt so good. And now I am in so much pain that just sitting here waiting for the meds to kick in is excruciating.

I will be moving slower today. I am likely to be napping at least some time today. And I have to give myself that grace because surgery was just a little bit more than a week ago. I want my body to heal.

However, I am feeling better. So, that means that the surgery is worth it.

Now, I Do realize that my adjustments will probably open up questions. so I am not doing a book review tomorrow…instead I will post a Q&A ASk me anything day. see you tomorrow.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 23

2026 PAD Challenge Day 23

My response is :

when I thought  
I had forgotten
how to fly,
and it hurt so much 
all I could do is cry...

when I realized the wing
was broken and laying loosely
I determined that i must 
fly anyways.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 21

2026 PAD Challenge Day 21

my response is :

when trying to describe
who I am and who I am not
the ink is limited.

there is no clarity
in the darkness
of the ink pot,
even as it empties.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 17

2026 PAD Challenge Day 17

my response is :

a house with no foundation
falls in so quickly...
so too does the soul 
without ego fail.

We need to build 
a foundation,
stable and true...
so that with time
we know the ability 
to face the truth.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

2026 PAD Challenge Day 11

my response is:

perhaps it is the universe's joke
played on my life that I keep ending up 
walking down the roads to nowhere.

I end up finding a way to somewhere 
but not in the normal ways.
I have no tether to the right road 
and truthfully I don't know if I want one,
for I have learned more from being lost 
than I ever could if I followed some plan.

I will gladly walk those roads to nowhere 
and find myself lost and learning 
than to follow the plan and be 
                               miserable.

BTW I posted a poem a couple of days ago and I said I was not sure if it belonged in kissed by Verse. I think it does not. I am going to open a new volume for it and this one…