Mammograms and plumbing

Gail Collins has a delightful column in today's New York Times today. It has freed me from two days of passionate posting on Firedoglake on the mammography study.  I will have more to say on Talking Stick but suffice it to say I did let myself get emotionally caught up by the extremely poorly constructed study and the callous presentation of recommendations.

For an obsessive such as I, it always feels safer to have a multiplicity of tasks on the to do list.

Tommy the titmouse has just made his morning visit to the suet feeder, spreading his wings in appreciation as he headed off. The cats are napping after morning smoozes. I have nothing more of concern to attend to, if I continue to ignore a kitchen unusable now for the second week.

Now it is the dry wall repairs that are ongoing and I must purchase something to kill the black mold and a step ladder to replace all the never used pots and pans to the upper cabinets.  The good news is I now have an operational ice maker! Something I have done without (for mysterious reasons) for a number of years. Next the clothes dryer. You know. Life is hard. But, Praise the Lord, it is life and I find myself enjoying it all. May the to do list never give out.

Ms. Collins' descriptions of how life goes resonates deeply with my own experiences. Notable events, external and intern, occur in the midst of and are made digestible by the ordinary demands of living.  And it is good.