I’m at a baseball game in the middle of the day. I mean, I guess they are all in the middle of the day. Fair enough.
I spent the morning trying to arrange rides for all the kids. It was successful and everyone is going to have a good time and that makes me feel all glowy, while i feel like shit at the very same minute because I am absent. this is not good. (goddamned school vacation, and all) and then i drove to my mom’s so that she could drive me to work.
Then, at work, I spent the morning walking my boss’s dogs because one of them was having surgery and my boss was feeling crazy stress and worry and so I went with her to the vet.
And now I am here, having gotten my car out of the shop for an insanely large amount of credit card usage. Its another one of those splits. 1.I am thrilled to have my car back and I would throw any amount of debt-incurring at it to have it back. who cares? and 2. I am feeling nauseous about finances.
But i have my car, and i made it to the game to see him play. I’m good. Its all good.
And I’m sitting in my car, looking at the greens and the golds, and the faintest blue of the sky, and being swept with meloncholy. I feel watery.
I don’t see a way out of some of where I find myself, well, not a way that I like.
Sigh. You know what new phrasing has arrived in our american language that I really like?
I am feeling some type of way.
I am.
I am feeling some type of way.
But I have my car, and I made it to the game, and I am sitting in my car doing something I really love to do, write, and think, simultaneously.
So there.
I am going to find a pigpile of joy today, never you fear. But for now? Watery.

I like feeling watery. I’m with you there. It’s, for me, such an accurate way to describe the skin shedding, vulnerable, uncertainties of reforming your life while going through tectonic upheavals. It’s also life giving, affirming, forever changing and shaping as it goes. Never completely still, always changing. Spring is a watery season. ❤️
Wow, Noel, I think you did a pretty fantastic job drawing that more clearly . Thank you.