On Friday night, Will and I enjoyed dinner on Wally’s patio (a neighborhood restaurant) with Andi and Mike. My niece, Jessica, came, too. Jess has enjoyed so many holidays with our dear friends at our house over so many years that she asked to see them. In fact, Jess had personally asked them to attend Shawn’s funeral.
Ravi had been ill, this week. Thankfully, she felt well enough to return to school on Friday and received her first vaccination against Covid on Saturday, at which time Steven and Celina received their boosters. In five weeks time (soon after her seventh birthday), our sweet grand daughter will happily walk into her Gramma and Papa’s home and receive our warm hugs for the first time since April when I had need of repeating chemo followed by lung surgery, again.
Though early this morning, on my way from my bed to the bathroom, I experienced a few moments of disorientation that actually saw me ‘crashing into walls’ (indicating a sudden drop in my blood pressure, depriving my brain of oxygen), today is proving to be my calmest day of the week. Perhaps my appointment with Gary on Tuesday (which may have inspired my intuition to write about my growing awareness concerning my need to more thoroughly accept limitations that have accompanied my aging process, thus prolonging the length of my recovery from life threatening illness.
Many times while writing heartfelt posts, I find that upon review, my intuition is actually speaking to me …
I’ve been spending the last several days with characters created by Anne Tyler. Amazing how her storylines are so different from each other. Having spent considerable time, over these past two years, binging on authors who are considered excellent writers, upon reading several of their novels, one after another, I find their use of vocabulary limited and descriptions of main characters’ traits tending toward redundancy. Not so with Tyler. The lives of her characters are so quirky as to demonstrate the depths of her insight into what makes us ‘individuals’. No wonder why she won The Pulitzer …
🙋🏻♀️Annie
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