December 9, 2013
It’s
someone’s birthday out there! You cannot pretend you don’t know that I
know.
So cold
my breath numbs my lungs as the air proceeds down my wool scarf-covered mouth.
The dog insists on going out for a walk after I strolled down to the library
and back for my meeting. Far better than to slip and slide in my vehicle along
the slippery streets after dark. We race around the neighborhood, collecting
greetings from the folks out shoveling, spinning motionless in their cars at the
edge of the driveway, or coughing up smoke at the back step as they smoke and
croak “Hey.” It has been a shivering day, avoiding the light dusting we got
last night because my back reminds me just how much I do NOT want to attempt
shoveling and encouraging pinching and stabbing pains in my lower torso. I’ll
make a stab at it tomorrow, in the heat of the sunshine. Right.
The
Seed Library meeting outcome leaves me with more homework than I anticipated. I
have assignments for my Developing
Innovative Ideas for a New Company class and need to read my three Chapters
in the book. Four video classes and notes (don’t do shorthand) force me to be
in front of the laptop for hours per day. I am in charge of writing an article
and press releases for the Seed Library group as well as putting together a
list of gardening books to read to the children during story hour about plants
and gardens and community-building fables to encourage the little minds to want
to grow food. I am able to read Spanish at the preschool level, as long as I am
not having to translate for the parents. Hmong is another story. I’ll be at the
Riverview Branch Tuesdays at 10:30am, in case anyone wants to join me for story
hour. I’ll be the one reading the book. In case you are wondering.
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