My blog suffered for over a week with the lack of a computer. Helping again my aunt to get settled into assisted living consumed 10 days. I spent my spare time looking through old family photos and pix and hope to print and distribute them to family this fall and winter. Some photos were salvagable, but many had discolored and were poor quality, so I pitched and sorted. As I looked over many of my deceased relatives, I was reminded how short life really is, even for those who live many years, like my aunt, who will be 98 in August. Our days are precious and we flit our time away as if we have forever.

Somehow, someway, I need to rid my life of the unnecessary. First I must determine what is unnecessary and start to sort. Sort thoughts, junk in my mind and literally junk in my surroundings, which there is a lot of. Maybe that is why I have felt so disturbed these last months...things just don't fit in my life like they used to...reflection can be so very painful.

The next month is so scheduled I think I may just have to take a few days to go away and do something mindless...walk through a woods, walk on the beach, explore a new place I've never been, or just sleep all day and read a book that doesn't take too much thought.