April 2024 Blog
Focal
Shift: A Haiku
Much better, I find,
To concentrate on the “do’s”
Than on the “don’t do’s”.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
(3/29/24)
I’d rather
be “doing” than “don’ting” or focusing on the “didn’t do’s”. I can’t help
thinking of the old lyrics: “Accentuate the positive! Eliminate the negative!
And don’t mess with...” Still great advice.
So I’m
shifting my focus. I will concentrate on “getting ‘er done” rather than doing
only what I absolutely have to and absolutely only when I have to do it.
What a
concept – get ahead of the game rather than try to catch up all the time. (That
trick hardly ever works.)
Yet
here I am trying to meet my 1st of the month blog-posting commitment
to myself. It’s been a rough few days: the 1st anniversary of my
son’s demise, Easter weekend and April Fool’s Day. Also Mercury is now
retrograde until the 25th.Guess I better squeak this in befor
communications go whacko.
And
then there’s the solar eclipse on the 8th. Please, if you’re going
to view it, do so carefully and make sure your glasses aren’t fake. Should be
awesome for sure, but I’m going to pass on it. My vision is already compromised
with AMD.
I’ve
gotten some work done on the Sam Rock sequel this last month, as well as some
work on the tribute chapbook for my son. Next I need to get Steve Hamm’s audio
version of my “Black Oak: Town of Joy” up and running.
Also
working on eliminating 80 years of accumulations. I don’t need all this stuff
I’ve been hauling around all these years. I think I still have my old Atari
computer from the 1980’s somewhere in storage.
It
will be harder with my husband’s VHS & DVD collection. He has literally
several hundred. I don’t think there’s enough time to watch them all left in
our lives.
On the
other hand, I need to catalog and preserve all my hand written manuscripts and
poetry, as well as make sure I get everything transferred to the computer for
future reference. Might be worth something to somebody some day.
Still
have high hopes for this year even though it’s now one-quarter gone. There’s
still three-quarters left.(I’m trying to be more optimistic.
As
always, I welcome your reactions and responses to any of my blogs. I love to
hear from my readers. Also, here are links to my Twitter and Facebook accounts,
if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication
announcements.
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It’s
now April and the weather is cooler than it was in March. Go figure. We’ll see
what the rest of Spring brings.
