Once more, I've gone several days without writing a blog post. The title refers to the way I feel about apologizing for the breaks. I'm tired of it. I've decided to write when I can, and when I feel as if there is something I can say, and not feel as if it is important to write every day.
That is a significant change for me. Perhaps I've gotten to the point that writing is less important than other aspects of my life. Recently, I've been concentrating on quilting and that, too, is undergoing a break, a physical one. When I work on a quilt, my shoulders are in one position for long periods of time. After several days, two to three hours without break, and five to six daily hours on consecutive days, my arthritis kicks in and I need to let the muscles relax for a few days. I quilted for at most 45 minutes this morning. I called today for another appointment with the physician to receive another cortisone shot, but that wont happen for a couple of weeks.
There was an interesting occurrence last evening here at home. Marrianna and I were watching a BBC Inspector Lewis television mystery. The series takes place in Oxford, UK. As we were watching, Anastasia and Morgan returned from having seen a movie at a local theater. Morgan, who received his PhD at Oxford University, immediately, almost excitedly, recognized scenes at the library on the TV. His tone seemed to me to say that his days there had been very good, and that it was nice to see the scenes of the campus. It was, for me, an illuminating moment of the man who is the father of our about to be grandson.
They returned home to Asheville this morning, taking Copernicus with them. Copernicus has been with us a week while they vacationed at the beach with his family. Marrianna loves that dog, and I'm sure misses him a lot just now.
I read a very interesting interview in my latest issue of The Sun. The first part of the interview is here, and they refer to the print version for the rest. Usually, The Sun's interviews are less interesting to me, but this one grabbed me. The interviewee is Janine Benyus, author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Harper Perennial). There's a bit in the interview in which Ms Benyus talks about architecture learning from nature . She says, paraphrased, that tall buildings could learn from desert cactus. The folds of a cactus provide shade for parts of the plant, helping it to adapt to the heat of the desert. There are many other examples of how biomimicry can assist us all, but this one returned to me this evening. I know that I see analogies everywhere, even places where they aren't appropriate, but it seems to me that there is an analogy here for the current discussion of health care reform. It is important that those of us who can provide shade for others. Through that, we all better survive the stresses of living. Think of it as taking care of ourselves, much as the cactus takes care of itself. The interview is excellent, revealing many instances in which we should mimic nature. It's worth buying the magazine to read, or maybe the book, since they don't have the entire interview on-line.
It seems barely possible that tomorrow is the first of September. There doesn't seem any way that so much of the year has past. For us, as noted in the last sentence three paragraphs above, an impending grandson, it has been a significant year, and with much more to come. I hope to be able to write about it, and that you will continue to want to read it.