Practically the whole country is in quarantine due to the COVID-19 virus so things seem a bit strange.  I’m trying to take some deep breaths and enjoy this time without life’s normal hustle and bustle.   

Jonathan Ross redid my web site but I’ve been putting off posting on my blog because I dislike engaging in new things.  I’m trying to repeat my bible passage of choice.  Isaiah 43:18: “Look, I am doing a new thing; now it sprouts up; don’t you recognize it?” (CEG Common English Bible)

Thoughts race through my mind, a common occurrence for me since I lack the ability to shut them off.   I think about writing a post but then I remember I have to do some wash, vacuum the living room, play with Sparky, take him for a sniff walk, organize my desk, eat, swim, weed –  you get the idea.

Years ago, a person I met at the Summer Institute for Theology and Disability in Toronto told me she handles this challenge by writing every thought that comes to and then organizes it later.

That is what this post is going to be. When I was in rehab for my brain injury, I did this as well. [see footnote (A)] My husband, Michael, who also has a brain injury although it is considered mild says the only way he can get anything done, is to make lists. So here is my current list in no particular order:

1. COVID19 virus
2. Selling my violin and viola
3. Weeding the front yard
4. Sparky: He’s 15 with health problems.
5. Michael is home all the time now and I miss my solitude.
6. Today was a beautiful spring day.  Really beautiful.
7. It’s Maundy Thursday so thinking about a foot washing service here at home.  (I’m writing on Good Friday, the day after)

In regards to the last point, we had a foot washing service and Sparky wanted to get in on the action which shows in the picture.  Michael had the camera so the only pictures we have are when I washed his feet.  Notice I am in my pajamas having just taken a shower and was ready for bed.  I do like that blue robe.

(A) from “Forgetting the Former Things,” page 11:

Perhaps I’ll list the things I need to work on. I may forget some of them.

1. Speech
2. Vision: I must wear a patch
3. Use of right hand
4. Speech
5. Memory. I especially want to remember dates and names.
6. Use of physical body. My use of the right hand is horrible.