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Time marches on . . .
12/29, Sunday. I
recommend the mindful preparation of a batch of chicken vegetable soup with
Tord Gustavsen on the CD player and a winter wind gusting outside the kitchen
windows as a perfect way to spend a Sunday morning.
12/30, Monday. How
is it, I keep wondering, that a blogger friend in Switzerland, who hardly knows
English, knows ten times what I do about American pop culture?
12/31, Tuesday. Department
of Simple Pleasures: I have rigged up lights around the house to turn
themselves on and off during the evening and into the night, and it delights me
that a string of them over one kitchen cupboard is already warmly glowing in
the morning darkness, lighting up a corner of the room as I get up to make
coffee.
1/1, Wednesday. The
desert has its own bird population, and my favorite has to be the cactus wren
whose rollicking call is a great greeting for the new year as I step out into
the back yard, the rays of the rising sun lighting up the mountains and valley
below with a golden glow.
1/2, Thursday. Under
a brilliant, cloudless, sun-bright sky, a Costco parking lot supervisor,
muttering and ruffling his feathers, observes as I return my shopping cart.
1/3, Friday. A new
wrist brace on my left hand and an appointment on the calendar in three weeks
to see a doc about what seems to be a case of carpal tunnel, I am discovering
how much I have taken the gift of two fully functional hands for granted—and
incidentally how hard it is to type with just one.
1/4, Saturday. Three
days crossed off my new calendar, and I’m feeling the new year already
beginning to slip away.
Image credits: Ron
Scheer
Coming up: Richard
Wheeler, The Richest Hill on Earth
I have some occasional carpal tunnel symptoms but so far have been able to avoid the doctor.
ReplyDeleteConsider an investment in an ergonomic keyboard.
DeleteI have been enjoying your one sentence journals, I think I might try this myself. About the hands, me it's my ankles, go from walking and playing golf, to a cain and very slow movement often in one day. Only good thing, there are some very cool cains out there.
ReplyDeleteGrowing old is not for sissies.
DeleteRon, is the parking lot supervisor a crow or a raven? I thought carpal tunnel usually affects the right hand/wrist that holds the mouse. I didn't know it can be associated with typing with either hand. My yoga teacher once told me to flex my fingers and move my wrists in a circular manner as often as I could while typing long hours. A sponge ball is also a good home remedy for the hands.
ReplyDeleteA little small for a raven. But I don't honestly know. I use a mouse left-handed, but I believe the injury is keyboard related. I will know more, I suspect, when I see the doc.
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