Just a note to let you know I’m still alive and writing, writing, writing. Lots of poems and getting the Memoir ready to publish. It looks to be a formidable task–when dropped into a 6 x 9 template, it goes over 200 pages, eek!
Poems are still coming everyday–my vow to write 80 poems in 80 days on my 80th birthday has gone gang-busters and I’m over 50 poems now. I’ve started renumbering them after the New Year so I’m about 9 plus 2 over this year so far and over 45 from 2018. I wish they were all wonderful, make you laugh or cry, but with any exercise some are just painful progress. I owe this to a number of people whose prompts I follow and my own deep intuition of each day. I’m grateful for all these friends on Face Book as well as my deep well of life friendships.
I’ve been out of commission physically for quite a while–In November I developed an inflamation in my old arthritic knee which had me “off my feet” (included no driving) for over a month. December is a particularly bad month to be laid up with all the activities, luncheons, presents to buy. I’m delighted to report that my knee is just about healed–I’m no longer using a wheelchair and have actually been driving this week – yeah! To make things just complicated enough, I developed Bronchitis around the first of the year so I’ve been a coughing-fool longer than I’d like. That also seems to be getting better.
I’ll close this off with a wish for the New Year to you all for health, happiness and good writing. I’ve got places to go, people to see and months to make up for–whee!
My next task is to put a few of these poems up in my Poet’s Corner. Look there for some new work soon.
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