Later in this Day

We just got back from our picnic. It was nice but hot. I went in the lake and splashed myself with water but I have to confess I prefer swimming in a chlorinated pool.

I read some poetry butI am not sure it went down very well.

Now he is in the bedroom lying down with a racing pulse. It sounds so selfish to say this but when I moved here three years ago, I did not expect to be with a man who has given up. Of course, he did not expect to be with a woman who had cancer last year, either. At our ages {he is six years older than me} we have to endure these things…