Slowing down and taking a breath
Progress continues, slowly. I’ve been working on preparing the draft for the 25th Anniversary Edition of Broken Images . The original was lost to moving, growing, replacing computers, and just good old fashioned time, but text capture technology has been a blessing. It’s helped me recover collection one page at a time, I am just getting the words into a file for now, and I plan to edit once it is all there, but it has been strange remembering some of these poems. Some I barely remember writing. Some take me back to the very day. This week I’m off work. We decided to take a staycation. There are no big trips. I suspect there will be sleeping in, coffee on the porch, and some hikes around the lake. There may be a few short day-trips if the mood strikes, but mostly we will be right here at home. The spotlight poem this week is a lighter one, a small moment of peace. It’s about taking the time to notice the little joys: the comfort of sleeping in, and the company of a cat who knows...