Night is closing in on another day. It’s been a good day - especially for a day following a weekend sick in bed (those typically don’t go so smoothly). I woke up feeling weak and still a little run down, but really wanting to “take on” this day…a person can only take so much “staying in”.

It felt good to clean the house; it felt good to cut some roses; it felt good to go grocery shopping (with my boys) - good to get coffee with Byron, make a real meal for everyone and Robbie, make a lunch date with Amanda…do laundry - sit in car line - bake a pie - talk to my dad - take my temp. and it be normal…

I’m still not feeling 100%, but it feels really good to be acting like I do (fake it ’til you make it!). And if the sun will shine tomorrow - even for just a little while - I know I’ll start feeling like myself again. Plus, lunch with Amanda will lift me…time with good friends always lifts you up - it’s like a deep breath of fresh air. Friendship is like that…the best medicine! It soothes the weary soul…

I could write a poem tonight - I can feel it…kind of brewing. I don’t really have the energy for it, so I will try to just go to sleep without trying to write. But, if I keep feeling like this, I will have to just break down and put it to words…I can only put it off for so long.

Robert Frost writes:

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.

Whatever the thoughts are that need to find a voice…will be heard - they will find a way. Hopefully, they will let me rest first. Frost is the same one who wrote “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep - And miles to go before I sleep - And miles to go before I sleep.” I love this quote - it’s how I feel most days.

I would love to explore the “lovely, dark and deep woods” of the pensive and poetic, but still there are “promises” and many, many “miles”…

So, I will go keep them and travel them.

Peace.