Waiting
Friday was the 19th year since our world changed. While I had no-one directly impacted by those events, I watched with millions of others world-wide–stunned. I was at work in Liberty Texas Emergency Room; one of the nurses ran out to the waiting room television to report on events as they happened. Patients continued to arrive at intervals and we worked but with part of our minds going over the events and the other glad for the distraction of a tangible work.
This year our world changed again–with something we did not anticipate but instead of the cohesion expressed in those first few days and weeks, there is divisiveness and vitriol—anger the expression of fear. We want a return to ‘normal’—whatever that was before—and before those Towers fell.
Each morning and each day rolls into the next while we are waiting for that return. The most exciting part of the day is ‘what shall we have for supper tonight?” and who is going to cook it? Grocery shopping trips are limited to once a week at most, more often every ten days with husband doing majority. I have been working ‘some’ but not enough to justify all the expenditures of CME, licensing and so forth.
Toby and Dora form the majority of our physical social world with the rare phone call from a son…and of course there is the internet–increasingly unpleasant as the election draws near and people fume at the uncertainty and change we now face.
However, September is also back to school month. For me, that always mean a fresh start, new beginnings, new notebooks and pencils and a new dress and something intellectually new to conquer. Even though my school years are past and my sons no longer need new notebooks or gym shoes, I still enjoy the excitement. And this year of uncertainty, it seems even more important to focus on what I can do, looking ahead instead of behind.
This fall I have taken on the dual task of improving my speaking Spanish and Photoshop Elements 20. And it now seems to also include learning this new Block Editor in WordPress.
Yesterday was a trial run of the Block Editor and Photoshop Elements.
Here is another photo for your viewing pleasure. Unlike yesterday’s image, it s not trimmed and bound. I don’t have a destination or purpose for it—it is a good size for covering a lap while watching Netflix or Prime or even one of those DVD’s stuffed in the cabinet under the television.
Any takers? (after being binding is applied)
Sylvia Weir Art 