A walk in the park

[xela]

I took a walk today in Menotomy Rocks Park. Without my cane (carrying but not using it, that is). Without a therapist hovering at my elbow. On grass!

All for the first time in more than a year.

It was barely five minutes, and probably not 50m. But I was smiling when I got back in the car.

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I've been having a pretty crazy year. And it's not over yet. But there's some cause --- just a little --- to hope the faint flickering I occasionally see down the tunnel isn't a hallucination. And I felt real joy today!

I have a lot I want to say. A lot I've wanted to say in the past however many months. And just haven't been able to find the energy or the words or most of all the motivation.

To anyone reading this, I'd like to say thank you. And to say how very sorry I am that I have been failing to hold up my end of my friendships these past few months.

Not that I expect to my former normal any time soon. I need to rethink how I do social media altogether. But if anyone has missed my comments on your life, I want you to know that i miss learning and thinking about your life as well.

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I'm aware that this is pretty disjointed. But I'm operating right now --- and I suspect for quite a while into the future --- on the theory that posting at all is more important than posting well-crafted prose. More important right now than posting coherent proce prose. But not more important than posting correctly spelled prose!

Comments

[siderea]

Yay more right now proce!

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

I find myself wondering if on some level I deliberately did that. (For values of deliberate that don't involve any actual deliberation.) I spotted it when glancing over the post one last time after hitting the submit button, and my first thought after the face-palm was that the correction would make a nice punchline. But not if it seemed contrived....

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Yay for the stroll, and here's to many more and longer leg stretching.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

As long as the weather will cooperate!

[gigglefest.livejournal.com]

yay! the (now-edited) ending made me smile.

[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Thank you --- your smile made me smile. Funny how they're contagious that way:^)

[bluedaisy.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited for your continued recovery :)