I have found that it is helpful to keep my apartment super clean. But I admit I haven't been making my bed, because several times a day I feel the need to crawl into it and pull the covers over my head. I usually spend my time reading or painting. Lately I have not been able to maintain the necessary focus to do either. That is one of the reasons I decided to work on my blog again. I thought it might help me regain my sense of direction.
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."--George Washington Carver These days. We are living in an altered paradigm. Each day when we wake up, we find ourselves living in a somewhat unfamiliar world. Perhaps this has always been the case, but I find myself hyper-aware of it now. And there is a strange ebb and flow to my days. I keep forgetting important things. For example, yesterday I was watching a cooking show on TV and found myself craving a burrito. My first thought was that it really isn't safe to go to a restaurant locally since we now have confirmed cases of the virus. My second thought was, "Maybe I could go to..." and I instantly realized there is no safe place to go right now to eat a burrito. I have found that it is helpful to keep my apartment super clean. But I admit I haven't been making my bed, because several times a day I feel the need to crawl into it and pull the covers over my head. I usually spend my time reading or painting. Lately I have not been able to maintain the necessary focus to do either. That is one of the reasons I decided to work on my blog again. I thought it might help me regain my sense of direction. "Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."--Ludwig Wittgenstein As most of you know, we live in an old hotel. From our vantage point on the third floor, it is easy to have a sense of security and the feeling of being literally above the chaos below. I have been watching the traffic go by and have been simultaneously reassured and alarmed that there are still so many cars out and about. I have been watching families in the park across the street, and I am intensely thankful for that refuge in nature. Even on the days I don't get outside, I make sure to get some vitamin D by sitting in the morning sun beside my herb garden in the kitchen window. It is almost painfully bright. And I like to think it is burning away my lingering layer of negativity. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to the body and soul."--John Muir Like many people, I am determined to use this time of isolation to do something positive. Even though I spend a lot of time thinking about food, I am making a serious effort to eat only half of what I usually do. This will make our groceries last longer and help make up for not being able to go to the gym. I noticed yesterday that my legs are getting skinny. "Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence."--Socrates We are predicted to have rain for the rest of the week. Suits me just fine. I find it to be soothing and cleansing. But for now, the sun is out, so I think I will go soak it up. Stay healthy, friends. "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."--Theodore Roosevelt
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AuthorCheryl Hicks is a writer and an artist. She is happiest when she can combine the two pursuits. |