Working in the Workshop

The walk to work:

Creating, exploring, retreating, and never forgetting...

In bocca al lupo.  m (no v)

Each Day...

It's up and down around here.

Yesterday was such a good day. v awoke smiling and wanted to go for a ride. After lunch, when he still felt like getting out, we set out.  Now it's the three of us;  him, me, and the oxygen tank (portable).  We drive a New Beetle, so the portable tank almost needs a child's seat in the back. We belt it in and take off for points known.

Yesterday it was spotting a whale just off shore in Pacific Grove (bay side), watching people running along the recreation path, and stopping to pick up some really good clam chowder at Vivolo's on Central. Such tender clams...

Such a magical place to live.  We can pull to the side of the road and watch giants only a few feet away breathing the same air that we breath.  Watching the surface of the water and imagining what passes beneath. Oh, we saw one of the other giants too, the Elephant Seal who hangs with the Harbor Seals at Hopkin's Cove.  He's grown!

 Home feels good too.

In bocca al lupo.  m & v

Down and Up

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and feel blue.  You know how it is, just laying there, in the dark and thinking of all the trials and tribulations of the day to day. Of course, I worry about v and how his treatment is going and whether he'll continue to improve which he has been doing, consistently, for the past twelve months.  There's just something magnifying about the middle of the night.

My antidote is to get up, quietly, and pad out to the parlor with the iPad. I bring up Netflix and tune into one of the many, quality, British mysteries that are lined up to be watched instantly.  The distraction is really effective.  So, as usual, it worked last night.  Another antidote is v himself, and this morning he made the coffee!

This morning's weather is mimicking my midnight mood, the dismal marine layer is burning off and revealing the bright blue sky.  So, the day begins and we move forward toward the light.

In bocca al lupo.  m & v