HA!!!!! The prompt for today is “deprive.” Perfect. I have been without internet since last night, my pool has no water in it, I went to three banks before I could find one where the ATM worked and four restaurants before I found one open so I could use their WIFI to post my blog. I would say I am the definition of deprived. Two mornings ago I awoke to discover the water I had stayed up all night to pump into the pool as per instructions from Chino had vanished! I opened the valves from the street water and alas, for two days,no water. It rained all night but this morning when I went to look, still no water. Luckily the rain wet the pool enough, I hope, to cure the new grout and concrete before we put the hot water from the street. When Pasiano arrived this morning, I discovered he’d left the filter drain open.. something I had no way of seeing, so it seems to have emptied the water right back into the cistern!
I drove through pounding rain and flooded roads to I leave Morrie off for his summer haircut and a bath, then went to four pharmacies before I could find the prescription I needed. I have two more days to prepare to leave for the states and have a million things left to do and it seems like one thing after another has happened to slow me down. Am I not meant to go? Am I just meant to go more slowly? I’ve learned this lesson again and again over the past few years and so now I need to listen again. Nothing that has happened in the past week is life or limb-threatening, so I’m going to sit here, enjoy my eggs and take a bunch of deep breaths. How can I feel deprived in this beautiful place where we are getting much-needed rain and where someone has just cooked me a beautiful breakfast? I guess whether we feel deprived or not is just a matter of which details we choose to concentrate on!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 