Today, I started to go through books to decide what I want to bring to SC. At first I was thinking only about the books I like to refer to in my work on manuscripts or for my newsletter and maybe some books from my “planning to read” piles. Then I thought about my poetry books, and the tears came. How can I choose which poetry books I will need? My soulful self turns to poetry often. I’m not going to a desert island, but in a way it seems like that. I am making decisions about what I’ll take with me for this who knows how many weeks recovery period. So here I am deciding what is most important to me. Until the tears came, I didn’t know how much I needed poetry.

being able to put on my shoes while standing up.

Big laugh today when Louise made a reference to our living together as something out of Grey Gardens.