Indira The Sweet

Tired April 11, 2008

Today was a the second of two 8+ hours of straight printing! Yikes, I am beyond tired. Can you tell. I always feel so lucky that I have such a nice home to go to after days like this. Although being at the bottom of those stairs staring upwards and thinking about the 3 other flights I have to climb before I reach my lovely home can feel insurmountable sometimes. The weather tonight felt right considering my mood. It is cold and foggy. I love when there is low fog in the city. It makes it seem like a smaller and quieter place. It has been a hard spring. We had one beautiful day this week, but the chill in the air quickly returned as has the rain as I can hear it bouncing off my air conditioner.

This was an interesting week. Through Facebook I have gotten reconnected with a slew of high school alum! It’s been fun catching up with everyone and to begin planning out 20th!!!!!! reunion. How did that happen? When did that happen? It is hard not to look back over those years and take a measure of what I have done, by comparing to what others have done. I try not to because we all choose to live our lives differently and choose what is important to us. So since we do make these different choices, we really should not feel like we have missed out on certain things because whatever we are doing right now is OUR LIFE and that is good! Don’t say “what have I done in all this time?” instead say, “WOW look at all that I have seen, tasted, cooked, felt, created, traveled to, written, read, sang, painted, and overall experienced since I left those hallways of Friends Seminary!” It is easy to fall into that trap of comparing our lives to others, and I am actively working on not doing that!

Now it is time for bed. Tomorrow is another day of printing and my Mom’s birthday.