MUSINGS FROM YESTERDAY

          It’s entirely possible you give a hoot as to how I’m feeling today, but I’m feeling much better. In fact, I had a fairly good day yesterday after whining through my fingers. As the day progressed, some things popped into my brain. 

• As I drove around, I was amazed at how the trees are burgeoning with new growth. It is the most beautiful green and looks as though it would be as soft as a baby’s bum
• Drove by my second favorite tulip (magnolia) tree and it was practically shouting, “look at me, look at me.” My first favorite is down by Green Lake, but I don’t get there often. I have one in my back yard and in 20 years or so, it could possibly take over first place.
•  Enjoyed the sun as it played peek-a-boo with the clouds. I don’t think it rained until after dark, but it was very COLD. I didn’t walk.
• The meeting with the attorney went well and we only have to make simple changes to my will as everything else is still relevant. I didn’t realize they would need to file John’s will, death certificate and community property agreement…should have seen him more than two years ago.
• Finished reading, GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE, and it made me wish I was much better educated. There are things in the book that I didn’t really understand, but I still enjoyed seeing what would happen to Leto II. 

I also find it odd, and maybe it’s that way for everyone, how things just pop into my head that have been residing deep in the file cabinet. Most of the time, the thought/remembrance has absolutely nothing to do with what I’m doing at the time. I guess my old 286 just decides it’s time to push that particular file out of the drawer. Then, like now, when I try to think of them or remember what it was, it's returned to the dark space in which it was residing. Can be frustrating when it was something I wanted to remember. Guess I’ll have to begin making notes. That should be easy because I almost always have my phone and I can just talk to the notes app and then refer back…that’s if I remember to refer back.

I don’t know about you, but I look out the window at my garden and feel so astonished at how it’s changed in just a few short weeks. 

• What was just dirt now has a wide variety of greens and shapes that are seeking to completely cover the dirt.
• The kind of rusty-colored peony stalks are almost a couple feet tall.
• Raspberry vines are covered with small green leaf tufts.
• The Karlberg Memorial Apple Tree has a few blossoms. I wonder if it will become warm enough for the bees to pollinate and give me an apple or two this year.
• Tulips are blooming and the wild bleeding heart is ready to bloom while the regular bleeding hearts are blooming. 

So, there you have it. Today, I looked at yesterday and chose to see the positive. Each day I’m going to try to look at the day before and see if there isn’t something there that will make me smile or sigh with pleasure. I’m going to be  optimistic and look for upbeat thought, fun, great thoughts/remembrances. 

Already, I feel better because I am writing again. Definitely not going to win a Pulitzer or ever get published, but you know what? I don’t really care because I am doing this for me, myself and I…we’re all good.