It’s cold and cloudy Saturday morning

And I’m at the mall doing Lida things

Which happens to be nothing today

Got my coffee beside me

All the tables were taken

And my notebook on my lap

Yes, I still write in notebooks from time to time

I’m reflecting on life

No matter what serious situation you are in

Someone else is dealing with worse

We don’t walk with our problems stuck on our backs

So nobody knows

I see a small child in a stroller 

The childhood of our children is done

They are now adults, living their own lives

Sometime in the future grandchildren will come

That will be the beginning of a new era

Wow, that is a huge bun on top of that girl’s head

Standing in the coffee line

It looks like a nest sitting on her head

Must be heavy, I think to myself

And these are things we do for beauty

And I’m guilty of that too

Thank you for sharing my doing nothing time with me 

I find it very therapeutic

23 Nov 2024

Why can’t comfortable shoes be pretty?

Why can’t pretty shoes be comfortable?

I’ve searched high and low 

And all I find 

Is pretty high heel shoes

And plain looking flat comfortable shoes 

Why can’t we have both beauty and comfort?

Why should our feet suffer for the sake of beauty?

Why should our toes get squished 

In pointy toed shoes?

Why, why, why?

And I admit this is a first world problem 

November 16, 2024

Sometimes all I want to do is nothing at all

Productivity can be so overrated

My bills will be there tomorrow

My garden can be prepared for winter later too

And the dishes can find their way into the dishwasher somehow 

For now I will do what I want

Make a video reciting my poems

Upload them on various platforms

Make sure the front picture looks good

Check how many people have seen it

Self-absorbed, I know

Surf YouTube 

Listen to Stray-kids

Sit some more

Day dream a little

Think of this poem

Write it in my IPad

These are the things I do

When I do nothing at all

Nov 9th, 2024

How do you explain the connection of hearts, the love you feel?

Is it by the tears you shed at the timear of departure?

Tears that sometimes refuse to stop

Where is all this water coming from?   

We have all kinds of love

Immature love wants to keep the object of the love close by

Mature love allows the loved one to go and explore the world 

And come back richer for those experiences 

I’m at my regular refuge  

The place that brings me calm 

What makes the coffeeshop such a relaxing place for me? 

People, music, coffee, writing, drawing

Or all of the above? 

Things we feel are hard to describe, quantify or explain

Feelings belong to another realm

They come with us when we leave this world 

Nov 5, 2024

Nick and Magalie Leave for Korea and Japan