January 18, 2013 - And the Inversion Continues...

Kodachrome Basin S.P.

Kachemak Bay

More haze and fog today - lots and lots of gray!  But it was a good day.  I got a workout in this morning, followed by a visit with a good friend I rarely get to see any more.  He took me into town for water therapy at the pool - and another friend picked me up there.  We went out for coffee and conversation, then returned to her home for a few games of bananagrams, until my husband arrived to take me home.  I fixed dinner while he taped off areas in the guest bedroom so we could paint - and after a break for dinner, I was able to help a bit by taping all the molding around the floor.  Not so much a day for looking today, then - but very much a day of being - with friends, with family, with hopes for getting better.  (More people are telling me I'm walking better - and that's encouraging!)

I've got a couple of friends that have been much on my mind the past few days - both are facing surgery, and have had more than their share of medical difficulties.  So I keep them in prayer and in my thoughts.  I e-mail on occasion, but mostly, I just pray for them to be well, to become whole, to be in a place to enjoy health again.  Sometimes it doesn't seem like enough.  Not driving, not walking well, living fifteen miles from my friends - as much as I love the views here, there are trade-offs, and it seems that not being able to be fully there for those I care about is one of them.  And then I remind myself that I'm such an introvert, there's no guarantee I'd blast myself out of the house even if I was well and driving!  I just wish for that.  I wish to be more than I am - to be able to offer more than I do. 

So, in the spirit of who I am, really, I thought today I'd include a photo (one of my favorites) from the many I've taken over the years.  It occurs to me that this blog is one way of sharing a small piece of myself with those I most care about, with those I most love.  I know, many of them don't look at it...but at least it's there...and it's a real part of myself that I share in this way.