It's great to have the sky back, the birds too. I slept with the window wide open under a few quilts- the ones named Story, Serenity and Uncertainty. It was a great sleep, but then anxiety set in... about the world, Moon having his senior year up in his bedroom, financial worries, my computer, this blog.
(If you've seen Jude's post, I'm in the same sort of boat, although not quite as far out to sea...yet. (And, yes, I do believe she's being blacklisted, because her comment was found in my spam.) I post photos on the phone, text is added on K's computer- which is very touchy, so photos often get accidently deleted, so back to the phone...repeat. I can reply to comments only on his computer, only on a certain browser. Also, I can't leave comments on other Typepad blogs, unless I'm on that certain browser. Since it's hit or usually miss whether my comments make it through to Blogger or Blogspot blogs, I may just be fading/sinking away from everywhere.)
Given all of the above, it's weird that I've suddenly found the urge to blog often. Maybe it's the fear that it could all be gone any moment. A kind of dog-paddling.
This was a hard week, so much is unknown and being lost, but when someone asks how things are, my usual answer is, "OK enough." Which is true. We are healthy, have a home, have each other, have enough.
It was the answer I gave dearest friend when we met for a walk today, I asked her the same question back, knowing the answer, knowing that things are incredibly hard for her right now, that she's a special ed teacher being asked to do the impossible as she tries to plan for and teach virtually.
She replied, "Fine."
I stopped in my tracks and whipped my head sideways, "What?!" Thinking I had misheard her, "How ARE you?"
"I'm fine." We took two more steps when she stopped and burst into tears, "I'm NOT fine!"
We stood on the sidewalk hugging, "Of course you're not. How could you be?! How could anyone be?" After we walked, I came home and straightened up my table. This surfaced. I can't remember what it was for? Some kind of reference for myself, I think, a way of making something make sense.
And then I stitched. I wanted to make a mermaid, but couldn't think of a way within my skill or patience level. So I imagined them- imagined hoping and knowing that they were there just below the surface, slapping their tails, scattering droplets of sea and magic.
