2016 was
wasted. It was, perhaps, the worst year of my life. Summer, my favourite
season, was the worst of my life. The worst day of all, I had nineteen seizures
and speech was not only impossible, I had little understanding of what was
wrong. I also woke up hoping I’d be “cured” every morning.
2017 was much
better. The Defiant Dress project
saved me. It was a wonderful way to make the best of life stuck indoors in my
teeny weeny Vancouver condo. And the praise it earned from the Arts Club’s dramaturge was a rich, rich
reward.
2017 was also the
year of the move to Gabriola. And by moving in October, all of the challenges
of shifting to a rural half-off-the-grid life were met before the year ended
leaving me free to enjoy 2018.
So I’m heading
into 2018 with enormous enthusiasm for my new location, the visits of friends
and the constant company of Fred, Ethel, Sheba, the birds, and the deer. And,
for the first time in my entire life a life-long dream come true: My own brand
spanking new studio.
And maybe, in 2018,
I’ll hear something from the Arts Club’s
about The Defiant Dress.
My brand new
wood stove will warm me for the rest of winter. I’ll be moving into, and setting
up, my studio. Then comes Spring!
When I think of
the warm weather coming, a couple of cubic yards of purchased topsoil, my big
backyard and the hours I’ll spend with plants while Sheba plays … well, I just
cannot imagine a better life. And all without noise: Car alarms, leaf blowers,
un-mufflered motorcycles, trucks backing up, busses kneeling and breaking and
anti-social street life.
I have asthma.
I also have “Hay Fever;” Spring and Fall are rough on my respiration. My
friends understand that. Well noises and things that happened to me in the city
caused me to have seizures. I had hundreds of them in 2016 and maybe a hundred
in 2017. I think it’s fair to say I’d
become allergic to city life because I very rarely have seizures here.
So let’s get
this party started. Bring on 2018. I am so
ready. And I hope you share my enthusiasm for 2018 — for your plans and expectations.
But today I go
to Vancouver. I’m meeting Bruce and Mary-Lou for breakfast, getting some pet
bait and chocolate and seeing Dr. S.
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| Hojas are one of my favourite flowers. When I get my sunroom I plan to get a couple. Their fragrance is spectacular. |
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