Tagged: thisisjusttosay

06
Feb
2021

MINUTIAE

The thing about trying to be better and more frequent about posting here is that I feel obligated to have something to say. Content. A subject. And when you aren’t going anywhere or doing anything, it’s hard to fill up a post with content. Nothing happening equals nothing to write about. Of course, that’s not really true. I AM doing things, but they’re repetitive and boring, mostly. I AM going somewhere, but it’s just the grocery store. But I’m obviously no Emily Dickinson, holed up in my house, thinking deep thoughts and translating them into poetry on scraps of paper....

31
Jan
2021

REDUCING

Quiet day, quiet weekend, quiet week ahead. Not in the mood for people, for conversation, for music, for sound. Two quiet days and a walk in the sunshine and snow. Rereading, recharging, relaxing. That’s all that’s needed right now, maybe that’s all that’s ever needed.

07
Jan
2021

AS THE YEARS GO BY, THEY TAKE THEIR TOLL ON YOU*

It’s been snowing all day, that thin corn snow that doesn’t stick. I didn’t actually check the temperature but it had to have been right at freezing, because even though it was cold enough to snow, it all just melted as soon as it touched down. Now, however, in the early evening, it’s STILL snowing and now, finally, there is a thin blanket of white. We’ve only had one other night of snow (maybe two? I can’t remember) but it’s always been gone by midday the day after. I hope it will stick around a little and brighten things up....

17
Dec
2020

BOOKS IN THE TIME OF CORONA

Barack Obama released his favorite books of 2020 list today and I confess to feeling a little thrill to see that the book I’m currently in the middle of was on it. And that two other books in my queue are also on it. Reflected good taste! To be honest, the book I am reading, that was on his list, is probably not going to end up on my list of best books I’ve read this year, unless it takes off or takes a rather drastic turn. It’s good, but it’s really heavy and because it’s about the consequences of...

13
Jun
2020

SHUUUUSH

Do you ever just feel paralyzed by the too-muchness of everyday life? I feel that way a lot. I seem to be stuck in a major rut and I’m not sure what to do to shake myself out of it. I WILL, I know, eventually, but I sure feel kind of stuck right now. Every day blurs into the next, and I can’t decide if that’s okay or not, to be honest. It’s been windy here all day today. All the green things are shaking and shimmying and the constant rustle and shuuush of everything is both soothing and annoying....

21
May
2020

SQUEEZY

You’d think with all this extra time on my hands that I’d write more. Our vegetable garden is sprouting! The potatoes are shooting up and the snap peas have made an appearance. The two artichoke plants are hanging in there but I am not sure if they are thriving. We’ve had unseasonably cold weather all week and lots of drizzly mist-rain but it cleared up yesterday and got nice and today is summer-hot. It’s not even noon and the thermometer says 18.6 C. I’m planning to get the kohlrabi, carrots and tomatoes into the ground/pots by tomorrow. Today is a...

10
May
2020

FALLING DOWN IN SPRING WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE IS RISING UP

It’s Mother’s day in America, but not here. Though Karin did remember and said happy mother’s day to me this morning, which was nice. She also weeded the front garden beds and went with me to the garden nursery where a ridiculous amount of people were unclear on the concept of social distancing. We bought some pretty-leafed plants to add/replace ones in the front. One had been smothered by grass and then eaten by dandelions and the others were to fill the spaces between hostas which are taking a long time to fill the spaces themselves. Anders has been outside...

03
May
2020

OH HAI

Someone is reading this blog and gently reminded me of that fact, letting me know that she checks in daily and to my horror but no real surprise I see that I haven’t posted anything since the middle of April. And now it’s the beginning of May. My will to write has been sapped by reality: I’m not really DOING anything other than working and laying around the house and cleaning and laundry and reading, and apparently I am no Emily Dickinson. I’m not even watching anything right now, as I finished the series I was watching and have yet...

12
Apr
2020

LONG WEEKEND UPDATE

It’s an extra-long weekend thanks to Easter holidays here in Sweden. We had a half-day on Thursday and Friday off, plus tomorrow. It’s been sunny and warm and very Springy. Anders and I went to the nursery yesterday and bought a lilac tree to replace the dead bush in the front yard next to Clifford the big, red rock, and he planted it yesterday. Now he’s finishing up the rock border at the front of the house. I’ve washed all the outside windows and done laundry and, I think, my US taxes. (I think, because the forms are all new...

04
Apr
2020

A LITTLE BIT OF ORK

I haven’t written a thing, though I think about writing. Everything I could possibly write about seems trite in the face of what the world is facing. Any problem I might have is so overwhelmingly first-world that it would be embarrassing to write about it and to be honest, I don’t have any problems like that. I’m fine. We’re fine. Everyone I know is fine, so far. We’ve been on a rotating work-from-home schedule for 2.5 weeks and I’m officially halfway through Gilmore Girls and have no idea what I’ll watch after that. Westworld season 3? Except how can I...

May 2024
S M T W T F S
 1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031  

Archives