Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Checking In

Summer is slowing down, certain trees shedding their leaves early, the evening temperatures dipping (at last!) below 70. Life has been frenetic. Those about me in my life, family, friends, all have had situations developing over the last year or year and a half, the conclusion to which all are seeming to converge at the same time. Younger brother and wife both having cancer surgeries and procedures. D-1 not able to escape any longer the attentions her new husband showers on her daughter finally calls the police. Roommate enters plea today in legal matter arising out of stupidity. Friend's impetuous jump to a nearby town for an un-met 'friend' and job opportunity finds out he should have looked before he leaped, and I'm picking him up at a gas station today and returning him to Atlanta. And the Mrs.' slow . . . diminishment . . . in functioning (a result of the leukemia five years ago?) is seen a little too readily these days. Work is cascading to the point that I'm just swimming in it. But--as another friend says--it's all good. After first feeling like I was drowning with all these events conspiring against me, I've learned the lesson that I cannot control things. Hmmm. Just wish I'd learned it earlier.