BookRiot and Poets for People Who Don’t Like Poetry, plus ER trips and Smoke on the water
- At August 06, 2017
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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First, thanks to BookRiot and Carolina Ciucci for including me on this list of “Poetry for People who Don’t Like Poetry.” Very good company there! Share if you like the article.
Second, I’m sorry if I haven’t been on top of things – I’ve been sick – several trips to the hospital and different doctors kind of sick, where I can’t stop getting – well – no graphics here, but let’s just say I’m having trouble keeping down anything but liquids, and sometimes not even those. They can’t figure out what’s wrong though my white blood cell count is sky-high and other inflammatory factors, they’ve misdiagnosed me twice already and given me a bunch of meds that didn’t help, so I’m a little frustrated (and tired, and having a hard time staying hydrated or doing anything but sleep with all the anti-nausea drugs. Oof.) This has been a month so far, with no relief. Boo. I have things on hold – haven’t been writing and sending out as much, so forgive me if I have been slow to respond.
Also in the weird zone, the British Columbia fires – 500 miles from us – have covered Seattle and the whole state of Washington in smoke, and this along with a bizarre hot/dry streak have left us kind of living in an apocalypse zone, right when most of us would like to be spending time outdoors, the air is literally too unhealthy – not just for asthmatics, for everyone! Now everyone is wishing for rain and wind and lower temperatures. I can look over the valley from my deck, and a weird thick haze hangs over everything. The moon was weirdly orange last night, baleful even.
Here’s a quick clip of my garden in bloom. It doesn’t seem to be bothered either by the smoke or my illness, nor do the hummingbirds and stellar jays and flickers. We saw a coyote on our street the night we went to the hospital, and I saw this when I went out to water the garden yesterday – a tiny bunny eating the leaves off my dahlia!
Esther
Thank you for the updates and pics. I love the bunny. Wishing you comfort and better health i
On the way.