A Good Start

I have made a good start to this day. I have called physical therapy and will restart my sessions for my hip on Monday next. I also called orthopedics and canceled the appointment I had scheduled for this week. The laundry is currently getting washed. In a minute, I will go downstairs and take the whites out of the drier and put the not-whites in there. Then I will make the bed and fold Fred’s stuff on his side of the bed and he will put his away. I have also put the next massage and the next book club meeting on my calendar.

Our book is Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez. I have had it on my Kindle for a while and really enjoyed reading it. Before the meeting, I will go through it and mark sections that particularly interested me and put them in My Clippings file. With a Kindle, you can’t say "This is on page 23" because the Kindle doesn’t have pages. What it has are numbered dots called locations. This is because the page number would change as the font is made bigger or smaller. As you read, the location dots are darker and also there is a percentage of book read number on the left. It sounds complicated but it is actually quite easy to use.

I have mentioned before, I think, that I am reading my way through Andrew Vachss’ books but now I am thinking do I really want to read all of them. Don’t get me wrong; with the exception of Blue Belle,* I have really enjoyed these books.  But they are starting to read all alike now. There is always a woman madly in love with the hero and  they always have these semi-enigmatic conversations about love and sex. I really DO like the cast of characters, though. There is Max the Silent, the warrior who is deaf, the Mole, a geek who actually does live underground, Max’s wife, Immaculata, their daughter Flower, and, of course, Burke, the first-person hero of these books. Oh, and I mustn’t forget Pansy, Burke’s dog…  Anyway, I am having the same feelings about these as I got when I was reading Dick Francis’s books: always a first-person hero, who quite often meets the girl of his dreams and is almost always beaten up in the last few chapters although the book ends happily! Oh, and there are almost always horses which is understandable since Francis was a jockey.

I just took a trip downstairs to take care of the laundry.

* too many sex details. I enjoy the sex that is part of the story but as I got to the point where we were told details that made me go "Ewww!", I started skipping…

"You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are

happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but

trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change

your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to

correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working."

Emmett Fox

"Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Paul Goodman