It helped for me to write down a short to-do list yesterday.
It helped me, even more so, that the sun came out.
As Mark told my mom, I was cleaning like crazy yesterday. There is no doubt in my mind that two jaws are going to drop at the above photo. My mom's and Wendy's.
From my to-do list: Make a creating space.
There it is. Now, you'll laugh, because the next thing I was preaching was 'if you use this space to create or make something - it has to be cleaned up afterwards'
We all know that I'm the biggest culprit. Before yesterday, that clear spot on the right of the printer was a towering pile of avalanches waiting to happen.
And yes - it's making me twitch that the curtain isn't pulled that bit to the left there in the photo. I'm learning to roll with things. twitch
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Having gotten caught up in my projects, I only took one walk yesterday instead of two. EVERYBODY was out walking, running, jogging and/or biking yesterday. Besides all the closed businesses and the ease of being able to cross Grand River and Michigan Avenue at any point at any time - walking feels normal.
Oh. And besides constantly working on avoiding interceptions.
I stopped to talk to Mark on his way from a walk as I was heading out, and I knew it was making him uncomfortable. I asked him when I got home, "Did it make you nervous when we stopped and talked to each other on the sidewalk and that cop drove by?" Totally. To know Mark is to know he's forever afraid of breaking any rules. To know Mark is to know he was pretty upset yesterday when he got an automated overdue message from the school library, even tho he knows these are special circumstances.
To know me is to know I've purposely thrown him curve balls to help him learn how to handle them better, because - as we all well know - life is full of curve balls. So I stopped to talk to him about nothing at the busiest corner between here and there.
Anyway. Walking lately has had me feeling like I'm in a giant video game or maze where the goal is to get home without intercepting with anyone. Yesterday, being nearly 60 degrees out and the first day walking without my winter jacket and hat, was the most challenging day. Gorgeous. And challenging. Everyone seems to be following the rules and giving distance by crossing the street, walking on the road for a bit or pausing in a driveway for the other to pass by.
I was in sight of one couple - and older gentleman with a very slow gait and a younger companion who I assumed to be his daughter, walking their dogs. At one point in the walk, there was a family outside with their dog and little one. Their dog immediately approached the older gentleman's dog, and as the mom went to retrieve the dog - I could overhear the old gentleman saying, with obvious worry and concern, "Backup. Backup. Backup!" to the woman, not the dog.
I think it was a bit of a reality check for that young mom.
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As for today:
Census (top of the list, since I didn't get to it yesterday)
Guitar (going for day 3)
Answer some emails.
Walk (as my map fills in - I'm having to go further and further, as all walks start at home)
And something else. I'm still undecided.
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