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Inauspicious beginning

January 13, 2021January 11, 2021 aka gringita

It’s biological urgency that penetrates my sleep, but I roll over to look at the clock. Squinting without my glasses I can make out that it’s … Seven-thirty something.

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Mission happy

January 3, 2021January 2, 2021 aka gringita

If I’d had regular access to a pool, or a rowing machine, probably that’s how I’d have done the English Channel virtual challenge.

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Resume pedaling

December 28, 2020December 26, 2020 aka gringita

In the summer I would use the exercise bike over at my folks’ place. I went over pretty much every other day, until I realized it was completely messing up my knee.

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Clumsy is as clumsy does

December 27, 2020December 26, 2020 aka gringita

Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it gets pretty dark pretty early, in December.

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A week of Fridays

November 27, 2020November 19, 2020 aka gringita

I started every day last week feeling like, at least it’s Friday.

I was right once, of course.

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One way in which 2020 is just like any other year

November 22, 2020November 15, 2020 aka gringita

It is late November and I am totally unprepared for there to be a major holiday. Mentally I cannot put my head in that space at all.

In that respect, it could be virtually any year of my adult life.

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Uh oh – Ow

November 21, 2020November 20, 2020 aka gringita

After all that raking, I was more aware of my back muscles, but I wasn’t ‘in pain’.

I went to bed that night like I would any other night.

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Missing

November 11, 2020November 15, 2020 aka gringita

Missing the adventure of winging to some far-flung place, seeing new sites, meeting new people.

Missing the casual ease of popping over to visit my folks, the quiet pleasure of inviting them over for a meal, maybe a show watched together…

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Wounded knee

November 5, 2020November 2, 2020 aka gringita

Maybe it was the recumbent bike.

Maybe it’s the way I sit all curled up.

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The tension of waiting

October 27, 2020 aka gringita

For my marathon medal to stop looping through the eastern seaboard and get delivered to me…

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