I sit on the edge, waiting for everything to uncontort itself, to unwind. Sometimes it takes a while. I take the opportunity to reflect on the day ahead and tick off some internal boxes. Enough food? Enough books? Enough meds? Enough contact with those I love? Enough knitting? Enough writing ahead? Enough ideas? Enough games of delightful and amazing Scrabble with the 12 daily games I've been playing since the invention of the internet? Enough Zoom meetings? Enough money to pay the bills?
Not necessarily in that order. But you catch my drift. It keeps me in gratitude. Because there is enough. And sometimes, if I need to shop for essentials, I find the body rebels that particularly day so I take it easy on myself and look in the freezer or the cupboard and laugh out loud. So much food.
I was thinking on kindred spirits. Some tell me they're my kindred spirits but I believe a kindred has to be an innie if we're "getting" each other at that level. I wrote about it here. Nothing has really changed since that post. I don't need lectures that I read too much or I write too much and I should get out and "shop" - retail therapy. An Innie would never do that. But the Outies do.
Most of my readers are kindreds, I can just tell, they are thoughtful and have dug deep into their inners and continue to do so judging from comments and their own posts. It is so delightful we find each other on the interwebz.
I picked up this from my mailbox yesterday. A postcard from Daughter. I absolutely love it.
Grandgirl is planning on coming for a month starting mid-July. She will self-quarantine. Her city, Toronto, is doing really poorly with Covid, we are doing remarkably well with no new cases now for a month.
But not everything is open yet. But "caution exhaustion" is setting in with its consequential carelessness. Only 1 in 10 are now wearing masks.
In for me.. I love my own company. :)
ReplyDeleteMe too. I think that innie is more "interior" than introvert. I have a rich interior life.
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There has been a spike in cases here in Hawaii. They are attributing it to large protests and parties. Will the suffering never end?
ReplyDeleteSome are saying never, Gigi unless full precautions are taken. We shut down everything in Newfoundland and now we have no new cases.
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Are COVID rates are rising.
ReplyDeleteWhat's in the breakfast dish?
Some of the numbers in the US are frightening. A massive increase due to unprotected mingling, etc.
DeleteBreakfast dish is fruit, eggs, yogurt (homemade) and grain - quinoa good, oatmeal good, even millet.
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I am a decided innie. Interestingly I had a conversation with my eldest (and very intelligent) brother about that very topic a few days ago. A conversation which still has me scratching my head. He told me (and I cannot convince him otherwise) that introverts suppress their feelings. Suppress them to the point that they explode. WTF?
ReplyDeleteCautious optimisim here too. Sadly our governments are fuelled by economic drives and are pushing for a great deal less caution.
He's wrong.
DeleteYour brother is incorrect. Innies have rich interior lives, introverts can be shy but depression, I believe, has nothing to do with it. I find introverts the most interesting of conversationalists. But they don't throw their pearls to extroverted swine.
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The card from your daughter is like one of those pictures that could be either/or. First I thought it was a pregnant woman whose fetus was eating her alive, then I saw it was a woman holding a painter's palette. I don't know what that means for my mixed up maternal feelings!
ReplyDeleteYes, I too found it a very intriguing card. She is a post card aficionado, there is a name for such creatures but it evades me now. Her grandfather was one too.
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I do envy you your Covid stats, still dozens of deaths a day here. Every day is precious now, family and friends are all that matters. Take care Mary. xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks Anne, your numbers are shocking and so easily preventable but money rules. Yet again.
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I'm an innie and an extrovert.
ReplyDeleteI am a gregarious loner with a rich inner life shared here and with other innies :)
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Any idea why Toronto is doing badly? Who is to blame? Provincial governor? Mayor? Politicians? Caution exhaustion is a good phrase. I think many are suffering from that.
ReplyDeleteThe premier of Ontario plays fast and loose with people's lives. His brother, who was mayor of Toronto a few years back was filmed with hookers and in crack houses. A crime linked family from all accounts. I imagine his values are quite skewed. He's a ringer for Boris and Donnie.
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Grandgirl is planning on coming for a month starting mid-July.
ReplyDeleteThat makes me smile and feel so good. How wonderful to have company. You probably won't be happy letting her go.
I never am, Joanne, love her to bits I do.
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Caution Exhaustion is a phrase I hadn't heard before and it would explain why so many people are becoming careless or waffling at doing what they know they should be still doing. I'm not an innie nor an introvert so the Lock Down has it's challenges at times for me, but I'm getting the hang of it. Have to, our State is right now a Hot Spot and No. One in our Nation for new cases each day, we're nearing having 2,000 in a single Day, which is mind blowing!
ReplyDeleteOMG Bohemian, that is appalling. Why isn't Lockdown instigated? This is terrible. You must live in fear all the time.
DeleteStay safe and I hope you find something pleasurable to do while you are "In".
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I love the mother/artist card. Your baked breakfast looks delicious too, except for the blueberries which I dislike. I hope grand daughter has a wonderful visit once her two weeks isolation is over.
ReplyDeleteYou can throw any fruit in the dish, I only use fresh blueberries as if they're even a day old they taste "musty" to me.
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What an allegory, feeling like a pretzel. Only you could come up with that. I think that I will use an Indian savory item that looks like a pretzel called chakli to explain how I feel sometimes too.
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakli
Yes, the unwinding time is quite startling some days. And those new aches and pains springing out of nowhere.
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I am an innie definitely.
ReplyDeleteA rich interior life. I often prefer sitting in my imaginary world than venturing out into the Big Bad One.
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Jenny and I are both innies so we get on very well.
ReplyDeleteI never feel like a pretzel when I get out of bed, more like a large ball of fluff that needs a little while to solidify into something more functional.
I'm envious, but very pleased for you WWW, that your area is doing so well on the Covid front. Sadly, our positive cases have doubled during the past week or so - from around 100 per day to nearer 200+ per day - for the state of Oklahoma. A long shut-in period becomes even longer!
ReplyDeleteYour breakfast looks yummie - I'm most likely to grab a banana and an ultra-high protein shake. Appetite not as good as it once was due to pesky meds!