I'm slow in returning to the world of public words… here,
just beginning to poke my head in through the quiet and back to this virtual world
of voices and beauty and community after a short-but-longer-than-planned hibernation
from the same.
There are a few reasons for my extended absence and they go
like this:
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My Internet has been down on and off for
days (my apologies to the Imperfect
Prose community most of all for my absence this week.) My phone data access
from my house is spotty at best.
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My fibromyalgia has flared up something
awful and I've been particularly weak/tired/in pain the last two weeks.
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I carved out time to write a dozen or so
blog posts ahead of time only to find the next day that my computer had
mysteriously dumped and disposed of them all completely…several thousand words
just plain gone. I haven't had the energy to start over again, yet.
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I've been up to my eyeballs putting out
fires like dealing with a water heater outage for three days and catching up on
overdue things like cleaning the carpets and folding laundry.
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I found out I won't be able to go to
Allume Social conference this year, which bums me out tremendously. It's for a
good purpose (our adoption moving forward) but it's a tough thing to give up.
Mostly though, I've lingered in the quiet space to give my
brain and fingers and soul a rest and it's been good. The infamous fibro brain-fog
meant not spending quite so much time in deep reflection as I had planned, but sometimes
just walking through the daily things is healing and restful on a different
level, and it was.
My tiptoes are back in the water, now, and my fingers
teasing the keyboard again. Hope it's been a great September for you so far.
