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Cat Toys and Endings

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To preserve my sanity I squeezed in a quick sketch in the half hour before I had to leave for my great aunt’s 90th birthday party at her club. I should be primping and trying to make myself look like I belong at a fancy country club in an expensive suburb but this was more important.

I’m a pretty solitary person, needing at least as much alone time (if not more) than social time. Days of family events and spending time with extended family during my mom’s visit can get me pretty overwhelmed so I have to carve out moments like this one. I grabbed the first thing I could find to draw, put on a CD, and got to work.

Now I have to decide whether to wear my white pants since it looks like a summer day today (which no doubt will horrify all the ladies as it’s after the official deadline for white) or be nice and wear something more seasonally appropriate. And now I only have ten minutes to shower, makeup and dress before the hour-long drive so wish me luck.

Meanwhile, here’s a link to Ronell’s blog post, “Endings” where she writes exactly what I’m feeling about the end of summer, the end of peaches, and time marching on, made even more poignant by mother’s approaching 84th birthday and my great aunt’s 90th. I wish I could have written her beautiful post but instead I’ll just say, “What she said….”

3 replies on “Cat Toys and Endings”

I was feeling the same thing but about melons! My favourite melons are still on sale but tasteless now. I feel it’s sad that we don’t respect the seasons and sell these forced things just for money. The pleasure of strawberries only in summer is sort of tainted by this commercialism. As for time – I think of it’s passing TOO often, it can be paralysing to always think each day should be special but I can’t be reckless enough to think otherwise! Oh, and you and I Jana must be so similar! I’d be feeling just the same about a party!! The ‘offical deadline’ made me laugh!

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I left a comment here a couple of days ago but somehow it disappeared, oh well! I was going to say I felt the same thing eating melons. They have lost their beautiful sweetness but they still look the same – inviting disappointment every time!

I try NOT to think about how each day is precious as I have done that since childhood (circumstances forced on me) and I’ve been paralysed by it. I wish sometimes I could forget it and afford to be a little reckless now and again!

Btw, I love that ‘official deadline’! Those ladies who look so good all the time and know the ‘right’ things to wear are so intimidating!

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