Relative Something

Like the hues of a plant with leaves that transition from deep purple to green, the number of things going on in our lives now are diverse and nuanced. Four me, yesterday’s physical therapy session produced the advice that I could try returning to my previous normal activities, as much as pain allows, to test the new stability I have been developing with walks and exercises.

The days are approaching a mark on our calendar when we had planned to return to visit Ian and family at their Forest Garden Estate in Portugal. Even though we have had to postpone that trip, we find ourselves ever more entranced with the memories we have of that paradise, and by the current stories we read of Ian’s present activities. It is as if we are becoming more connected even though we are not traveling there right now.

The current issue of Experience Life magazine features a cover article that describes a woman who had an experience very similar to Cyndie with regard to discovering an extraordinary connection and communion with horses. The woman moved to a rural area and began an endeavor with horses that reflects the images of possibility that Cyndie and I have been envisioning.

More immediate on our horizon is the US Independence Day holiday which is one of the big weekends of the year up at her family’s lake place. We will be packing up her crutches, and the wheel chair that Cyndie has rented, and making the drive out of town before the work-week ends. Hoping a little head start will reduce traffic for us. Hopefully, the inability to participate in any of the activities won’t spoil her visit to our favorite place.

It will be good for me to take a break from the work place for a few extra days. The business is booming at a record pace for us lately and is taxing our little organization to some of its limits. It is taxing me to pretty much all of mine.

I’m looking forward to bringing up the mandolin to the lake and increasing my familiarity with it. I would like to be able to make more pleasing music, but now it is mostly hunt and peck for notes that sound desirable.

Kinda like life for me lately. It feels like I’m in a bit of a “Research & Development” mode, doing a fair amount of hunting and pecking…