I am still here, but preoccupied with household things. Much less time on the Internet, but trying to touch base every day or so. Not liking the WordPress changes very much.
Best wishes!
12 January 2024 #weekendcoffeeshare
It feels as though this past month has lasted forever! The changes in the weather, this late in the year, have knocked me about.
Given that I haven’t been writing, I have been rereading books, a bit at a time. I have cut out activities, tried to eat good foods.
I look forward to Natalie’s post as I can.
A New Game, a New Year
Late to #weekendcoffeeshare again. Very tired and sleeping a lot. Having continued problems with my eyesight. I think that contributes to the fatigue.
Sometime during the year, there was a switch with my eyes from nearsighted to farsighted. Just off-and-on, back and forth, but aggravating. [I dragged out the large magnifying glass. Good for reading, but clumsy for writing.] Peripheral vision is still really great. The cataracts grow slowly.
I will be making some changes to the websites I have tended over the years. The site that I love most is my late mother’s website. I transferred it to WordPress for her when ATT Net closed its web hosting. That one, I intend to keep up as long as I am able.
I am making progress in my Artist’s Way/Write Away activities. Mostly mulling thoughts and such on a blog I started earlier this year. Fits and starts.
Another preoccupation during this week has been going through the ebooks on my Nook app, including imported pdfs from other sources than B&N. PeanutPress, Fictionwise, Baen Books, eBooks, and independents galore. I am down to 1,825 ebooks. as of last night. I have found books by a number of authors that I have permanently deleted from my ebook-library files. {There are also forgotten gems that I must preserve!}
The Scampers demand attention. I must attend. Thanks to our host Natalie and to readers!
All the best!
Lizl
Natalie the Explorer
our host for Weekend Coffee Share
2023: A Year in Review
Wandering in a small world
The weeks pass quickly, and I lose track of the hours. I had hoped that by now, the landscape would be covered in feet of snow. Covering the dead and dying grass and muffling footsteps on the sidewalks. The afternoon weather forecast has promised snow from Friday evening through Saturday day evening. With another stint and more of warm weather, there may not be adequate moisture for seeds planted in the autumn, if I recall that correctly.
I am still feeling extremely fatigued. I am blaming the continuing breathing problems on dirt and dust and dead and dying vegetation. We really need snow cover and moisture in the air.
To distract myself, I actually went ahead with another personal twelve-week round of The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron). I started a WordPress blog for the poetry that I wrote before I discontinued my former business domains. I am putting them out of the way and I am using the new blog for the Artist’s Way work. as well as the poetry archives.
I discovered that I have to work on my handwriting (for Morning Pages). Problems with coordination. First real attempt, and I ended up working at using a drawing pencil to write my name. (I need to get some ink pens and decent paper for the ballpoint pen’s ink.) I also have to make appointments for annual blood tests and consult. End of year is piling up.
Best wishes,
Lizl
“After storms”
feathers too few…cold
your dead bodies in my hands
wings broke, unused
no one can block the bitter
winds or stop the icy rain
Too many years in a row, storms too many and too strong. Too many birds dead before they learn to fly. I love the birds, their songs and winks, their nods and whispers. There are fewer, now. I miss them.
Copyright © 2018-07-03, Lizl Bennefeld.
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Outside the Box | Bold and Bright
This has been a quiet week, for the most part. I have spent more time in (re)reading favorite books. Several years, spring flooding in the basement was cause to put the lower shelved books in boxes to resettle in the living room and both bedrooms and closets. In spite of hauling to the curb boxes of hardcovers and duplicate volumes, many of the boxes remain. And double-shelved rows covered in dust.
Along the way, dust has accumulated and both of the vacuum cleaners broke. Not good for my allergies to dust and broad range of breathing problems. My air-cleaning filtering system at bedside still functions, and the central air handling still work, but not as well as it should. Add in the sawdust carried into the house from the detached workshop. Oy vey!
I feel a growing intention to put things to right, after these past years spent too often limited in what I could do. Mostly poor breathing and vertigo.
Waiting, now, for thick snow with no smoke or dust.
Back Again | #weekendcoffeeshare
I have enjoyed my thirty days of semi-retreat from blogging. I would have welcomed more snowfall, but the temperatures were often in the 50’s F. Thanks to gale-force winds, there were no leaves on the trees by the end of last week. Al got out the lawnmower several times, leaving the grass fairly long and leaving the leaves on the grass to be cut with the lawn.
One major project was to dismantle the websites of 20 years that I originally used for my business(es). I migrated my creative writing and photo art to WordPress, and my website hosting agreement ends with the year. I expect that last page to disappear before then.
During the month I have enjoyed fooling around with my own adaptation of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way and Naomi Wakan’s Write Away. My eyesight is in transition, and my writing is slow. I am working on improving my writing with paper and pen. My husband and I are in the later 70s. It is to be expected.
I hope that your week has been fruitful. Best wishes!
Elizabeth
Brown At Home and Abroad hosted by Natalie the Explorer
Time off (Oct. 2023)
Breaks in the Day 
