Ten things for which I give thanks this week…
1 – Although I never know in advance, what I am going to mention here, I am grateful to be of sound, and creative mind and faced with a blank page (screen) I trust that things will come to me.
2 – I was grateful to receive an email from Afshan, an Indian woman who I “met” during the A to Z Challenge 2022 – you can read about her here and I hope she may decide to participate here. Afshan is just one of many lovely people I have met through this blog and keep in touch with…
3 – My Critique Partner Nik shared his 12 in 12 month short story and I have nearly finished my second month’s story to the prompt of “Shuttered” – I will be chatting with Nik later this afternoon (for me) morning in Minneapolis… You cannot read the stories unless you are participating but I can share mine with by posting it here (next post)…
4 – I received a late “Bonus” postcard from lkast July-August Poetry Postcard Festival. Most of the participants are American but they publish a list of all the non-American participants so Americans can send a bonus card to them. So this is my second card from Grant Swados of New York – once on the regular list I was on and again on the bonus list. He has framed the original (postcard-sized) painting I sent him and sent me a reproduction of one of his paintings entitled “The Llama Lisa) a pastiche of the Mona Lisa featuring a llama. Also, he sent a poem about playing darts – a game that makes me think of English pubs, but since he sent the card, rather like when you have bought a new car, I keep seeing dartboards in American TV dramas all the time. Two countries united by a love of tiny missiles…
5 – My Continuous Blood Monitoring experiment is bearing fruit, I am losing weight slowly by keeping my carb count down to an average of 159 grams per day. The drug trial I am participating in, a lower dose of the “weight-loss” drug Semaglutide, might also be helping – I do feel less inclined to snack, am content with smaller meals – but that is not the main point of the study – it is to test whether, at this lower dose, semaglutide helps prevent cardiac events and I have to say that the feeling of queasiness and wind makes me question whether it is worth the price (if it works). I am pretty sure that after the “Randomisation” interview, I am on the real and not the placebo pills – only 4 1/2 years of the study to go – burp!
6 – I have finished “C” in the A to Z and will have time tomorrow to work on “D” which is for Decoration of Fabrics as well as a list of seven fabrics beginning with D
Damask
Dimity
Dobby (see also Piqué)
Double cloth
Double Crepe
Double Georgette
Drill
Duchesse
Dupioni
It is proving to be the most work of any of my A to Z’s so far…
7 – I am a creature of habit and so my washing is in – half already in the dryer and half about to be hung up – Sundays routine is Sunday routine…
8 – Glad to be participating here at TTOT – we had 12 posts last week and as Afshan grat#2 said it inspired her with positivity, I guess its working right!
9 – reminded I have 3 TTOT to visit…
10 – Speaking to my sister in Nova Scotia in an hour…
Have your best possible week y’all…
Wonderful list with so many good events going on for you. So uplifting to read.
Thanks, Cai! 💜
quick Comment:
Loved the use of y’all
it”s the little things that count and (the good ones) just jump right up at you.
I’m sure that came from spending so much time with Americans online, Clarke – the culture is rubbing off…
Still unable to comment on you TToT since it doesn’t like the 55 in Frewin55 – so I will reply here – We lived close to the sea in Ireland – 10 minutes walk down to the Atlantic and it is what I miss the most… On still Winter’s nights, the sound of waves breaking on either side of the promontory, was defening – normally the wind mixed up the sound which somehow quietened it…
#4 gave me a good laugh: a love of tiny missiles. I admire your steadfastness with A-Z. When I did it that challenge years and years ago, perhaps where we first ‘met’, I found it a lot of work but that was my own fault (my choice was the A-Z of cloud formations).
Hope your week is all you wish.
I don’t remember that A to Z about clouds and I would have, because I studied Geography which in those days, included everything, including the weather – so I think we met later – I know it was the AI illustrations to your poems that first drew you to my attention. Glad you liked #4…