September entered and overnight our weather changed. I love fall and everything about it but the change was abrupt. The nights pulled in, the temperatures dipped and the days got moodier. And we’ve had lots of rain after weeks of drought like conditions and heat and humidity. When I left work this morning, overnight rain had weighted the tops of the pansy petals, almost folding them in two as if they were bowing to the changes, acknowledging their fate. Today was also the first day back to school. Physically even! A real true return for most of the kids. My phone pinged with photos of the grandkids eager and face-scrubbed ready before school or sprawled on the couch afterwards, exhausted from so much in person contact after so long. I felt nostalgic seeing the photos, remembering my own school days and those of my son, that feeling of stepping away from home life to embrace life outside, not quite an about-face, but a gradual shift in perspective. Today I start two weeks of vacation. Not going away anywhere, maybe some day trips if Rob can take some time off, but more a much needed break and a chance to regulate my body to a day schedule and to embrace the beauty of fall. I trained a new young worker, Sam, in the last hour of my shift this morning. She had seen my client’s shower once before and did an excellent job on her own needing only occasional direction. When she put face cream onto my client, Sam rubbed it onto her gloved hands and smoothed it carefully over my client’s face, dabbing it over her nose and stroking it across her cheeks. Such a loving gesture. I usually swab it on with a make-up sponge! Yes, definitely time for a vacation. But even more than that. As I stepped outside into the cool morning air and saw the pansies, I noticed a subtle inner shift, a life season change if you will. A glimpse of the inevitable. Day 250 #365daysofsybwriting #365daysofhaiku Weighted by rain drops pansy petals fold over bow to season change Day 7 of Effy Wild’s blogalong
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AuthorWelcome! I'm Sue Blott: a writer of all things, a poet at heart, mom, wife, daughter, step-mom, grandma, tea drinker, tai chi-er, mystic, artist, dreamer...and now a blogger! This is my world. Categories |