Will I keep at bay Echoes of 2008?

 Pencils are unfamiliar

 At the keyboard, I must face disabilities. I do not type, I am trifocals challenged. What it feels like to write with a pencil is a distant memory. What it feels like at a keyboard is imperfection. Crippled.

ditto 2023

The New Year is attended by fatigue, a lack of momentum, and an ever more fleeting commitment to ideas that are hard; that must be coaxed, shuffled, strained, and simplified to enter a public place.   

In 2023 I was powering through a technical nightmare and barely had time to notice a holiday.

The ‘Glimpses through stained glass blog – is sometimes an incoherent public scribble, does it qualify as a journey journal? Or merely an inside look at my distractibility even as I write a line.

In 2023 the visits are rare.

My 2008 year-end review:

Seeking Synergy

Overwhelmed

Inundated

Besieged

Beset

Retirement, will it be a reprieve?

Spring of 2023 starts tomorrow.  Today I am mired in back-ups that date back to 2008 and all those words bubble up again. The TV station will turn 30. I will turn 70 and my memoir -- what will it be?

The Gritty Part of Integrity

As honeymoons are eclipsed by days of light

and orbits evoke forward movement in celestial time,

lasting transformation still rest upon integrity.