Aging With Grace: A Clearer Head
Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 12:00AM It was a wise decision to cancel my life and take some time to clear my head. The twilight zone desk is not even cluttered anymore. You can see desktop! Brain space was being to open.
I got the coding for Project Wonderful up all by myself. This has little to do with me and every thing to do with the ease of the code Project Wonderful provides. The ad spaces on the right are free for now so take advantage of some free advertising. I was hoping to make a little money with Project Wonderful but that’s probably not going to happen. If anyone would like to leave a comment or a link about your experience for others considering Project Wonderful please do. I am happy to provide some free advertising for other bloggers and to get a little for A Second Cup. More space in my mind.
I wrote five posts for my blog bank so if something comes up I have something ready to post on hand. I didn't get back with the people who offered to guest post but I will. I now have space in my mind to think through how to do all that.
The fridge coils are cleaned. That task was easier to do than I thought it would be. The coils were impressively dusty. I am very glad I didn’t let that slide any longer. The environment on the coils was such that new and yucky organisms might have developed.
Others have life lists that consist of going to China or writing the great American Novel (which will not win you the Noble Prize for Literature anymore. The committee recently stated in public that American Literature was too provincial). Me, I wanted to start a bog, live to see my kids mature to be independent adults and bake a pumpkin pie from scratch.
There has been a sugar pumpkin sitting on my counter for 2 weeks now. It was either bake it or give it a name and adopt it. Baking a pumpkin pie from scratch wasn’t hard but it was time consuming. There was none left for breakfast in the morning, which is a sad but telling tribute to how well my pie turned out. It is satisfying to accomplish something new, even if it is short of writing the Great American Novel. Satisfaction creates more mind space!
I saw some friends. Life is good.
I knitted and read some books just for pleasure. I,in fact, started a pair of mittens I am making for someone else. Hopefully I will get them completed before next summer. I am a slow knitter.
For once, I recognized burnout before burning out!
A break from routine was what I needed. Words and ideas are flowing again. The neurons in my brain have room to fire up once more.
There is still an under class of tasks that have not made it to the top of the to-do list.
Such is life!
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Carol,
Oh, my, oh, my. I see myself in all you say. Age-wise I am further along, but these dilemmas hit me in the face each day--even more dramatically now that I am retired and feel I HAVE to do something with the free time I have--something productive! I just realized reading your post that I actually have a pumpkin on my doorstep that I haven't even looked at since I placed it there over a week ago. I think I will go check it out. Thanks!
Patricia, Thank you for the kind comment. How did the pumpkin turn out?
I don't mean to focus on one small part of a very meaningful post, but how did you get the pumpkin to a place where you could make pie with it? I have never done that before and I am fascinated.
Anne, It was a small pumpkin, so I cut it in half , cleaned it out (made pumpkin seeds) and baked it for an hour. The recipe was on the pumpkin. It was one of my rare Martha moments.