It has rained for a week, and with the time change, I have sunk!!
I need to get in the boat and row.
I have had this blog for going on 12 years, and I bet if you look at some of the old posts, you will see my disdain for cold weather, wet weather and the dark. This is early in the fall for this sinking feeling, usually January takes me to my knees. November has rattled my bones, early.
Today is beautiful, but I have a VERY long memory.
I forgive mother nature, but I remind God, that he or she, needs to hold me with two hands, in this portal of darkness. Just this week, it was around 5pm and I asked Bill why were there so many people on the road, driving. He huffed, they are coming home from work! Like I had no sense!!
I thought it was at least 9pm, its maddening! I can not see good at night, so all driving for me stops at 4. AND...if I am riding with a person, its not a pretty picture....I am uncomfortable in dark, it all looks Clockwork Orange to me!!!
What I am trying to say, is I find myself without good blog material.
My art stops, my reading wanes, and you will find me wrapped in a blanket!!
This is not a good thing..I have to work harder in fall and winter to be sweet! Do not worry, I stay inside, so you are all safe!! This may be a gross exaggeration, but it does not feel like it to me!! I think I may have been a bear in a previous life, and hibernation comes easily to me.
Christmas gets me moving, and January birthdays for all my grandsons, a trip to mom and dads, a sunny day here and there, is it February yet?? GAD, this is when I concentrate on breathing!! and if I breathe like a dragon, no worries, I am covered and smothered in wool!!!( that makes me think of all the fires in Cali, and I just stay awake, thinking about so many people losing everything!!??) ( I have no worries, just a few unusable habits) ( well....maybe more then a few!)
I was going to blog about the midterm elections, but Florida is still counting votes. Florida, can you not get new voting machines in this century, pay some taxes!! You are so far down the rabbit hole, I only see the tip of an ear. So no blog there.
I have been reading this one book for three weeks, and normally I would have read three by now, so that has me in a flux. However the book is divine and I am hanging onto every word.
Title: Southern Discomfort!! ( best title ever!)
Author: I can only see the word Clark on my kindle, that is the last name. First name is covering with a check and I don't like to touch too many buttons!! ( I do have more then a few tics!!) ( that makes me happy)
Some lines from this jewel,
1.just registered the suffering that flowed from her like a silent song, a low constant hum of sadness ( November! to me)
2. absorbed the lesson of gratitude as best I could
3.Where I grew up in the south, church, like football and barbecue, is not the only religion. Its mandatory to go to church your whole life.
4.drank in stillness, feeling it spread through me like warm mild ( describing sleep!)
5. could see the rage and bourbon taken over ( not a good combo) ( too much alcohol, I hate it.) Most days, she was living in her room, with her other lover booze. Unhappiness slowly gnawing away at her.
( all words in parenthesis are my thoughts)
6. The paradox of the south, its a savage place, complicated, yet it burrows into you. There is venom in the soil. But there is beauty as well. ( fact)
I love southern lit, if the author knows the south, and the adjectives are not forced. I am still reading this book, through my covers!
Last but not least, I hope even in bad weather, you take yourself to the movies. Its two hours of pleasure, and if it Bohemian Rhapsody it is stand in your seat, not caring who is watching, singing, loud and proud. I loved every second of this Queen of a movie. Go see it.
That is it, getting ready to pick up my oars and row. Day is beautiful, so very thankful.
Blue is my color, and love wins!!
(man in picture is not in my metaphorical boat, but......its my blog!!maybe I hired someone to row for me!) ( a woman can dream!)
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