Columbines and Coyotes in Everyday Ramblings

A work in progress here, half my small garden plot. The purple and white columbine is being a bit of a bully this year eclipsing her pink and white sister. Not sure how that happened.

Thanks for your notes of condolence. As you might imagine today after yesterday’s surgery is being a low key one. As it has been cloudy all day, also a day for reflection. The surgery went fine. Not fun, but my periodontist was pleased, and I should get the crown for this implant in July.

Sadly, though he wants to do some more work with my gums in the next six months. It is not like he is adding on, he did talk to me about this as a possibility over the last year. It won’t be pleasant, but it won’t be as intense as some of the things I have already experienced.

And this is new, apparently it is possible to get infection around implant sites and I have a burgeoning infection in my very first implant from nine years ago. He wants to do this special non-surgical cleaning of the area. He says the bone looks good and that we caught it early enough that with the special cleaning and a few minor adjustments in my maintenance routine I should be good to go for another 10 years or so.

I am going to hold that thought.

The next three weeks for me involve League stuff all the way down. I am going to take the last week of May off. From League stuff, from teaching. I need a break.

We have a new League President coming in. I am sad for me about this because I get along so well with our current President, but she has gone way above and beyond and what anyone would expect, just an amazing commitment to both Democracy and professionalism. She is completely burned out. As soon as her stint is over in three weeks, she is getting on a Trans Canada train and running away from home.

I am trying to keep an open mind about our new President. She is much younger, has a full-time job, is a mother, and her vibe is more like a Christian Camp Leader and likes ice breaking exercises and those kind of forced let’s get to know each other “games”. Ugh. I found out this week that it sounds like she might delegate much of the things I need to interact with that position on to our previous President, who is a perfectionist. But at least she is a known quantity.

I’ll be more comfortable in my role the second year so that will help. I can’t wait to get to that place where I can feel like I know what I am doing. Maybe then I can innovate, streamline and get things done in a more efficient manner. But maybe not. This last year has been stressful.

It does help me feel though that I am doing my small part in bolstering Democracy in this chaotic mess of a country. Thank you, Germany, thank you Canada, thank you Australia for making sane choices in recent elections. It helps us know it is still possible.

The sun is supposed to be out again tomorrow. I have so much to do! It still astonishes me how tied our moods are to the weather but when one is doing all the things having amenable weather is such a gift.

Speaking of gifts, the wireless mouse I have been using for a number of years has been flaking out regularly and I have needed to stop and reconnect it like four or five times a day. I finally decided enough and ordered a relatively inexpensive one that is rechargeable, (yay!) It worked right out of the box and is super-fast and this one small thing has improved the quality of my activities of daily living or at least cut down on the frustration factor quite a bit.

I will admit that in spite of my best intentions as I have to be careful about what I eat for the next 10 days because of the stitches after I took care of all the things last night I ate a whole pint of ice cream.

And it was good.

As Joni Mitchell used to say, no regrets coyote.
Well, maybe a few. It’s all about the circumstances, isn’t it?