January 2025 Blog
Second Chance: A Haiku
The Year of the Snake
Tells me I can start again
And redeem myself.
by Ann Wilmer-Lasky
(1/29/25)
The snake and I are going to get organized, this time for sure. Especially since I did not die the night of the 100 Year Roswell Flood – Oct. 19, 2024.I just stopped living any kind of real life.
Our house and most of our belongings were destroyed in an unprecedented deluge of rain and a broken levee that inundated entire communities inRoswell, including ours.
My husband and I escaped with our four doggies and very few personal belongings. Even our car was washed down the street and into our neighbor’s fence.
Then, when we were trying to get things back together, my husband fell ill and spent most of the rest of the year between two hospitals and a nursing home. He is now at home in the apartment we were lucky to rent that would take the doggies. But he still has nursing care and therapy.
I didn’t know if I would ever get back to anything near normal, but here I am. I am celebrating the Lunar Year of the Snake and I’m coiling up to strike out and resume the writing editing and publishing that I was able to salvage from the muddy waters.
My blogs will come as they are inspired and hopefully not be a continued apology for what I am not getting done.
I am embracing the Year of the Snake to:
Declutter – the flood pretty much took care of that.
Reset – thrift stores are wonderful, so is our Salvation Army.
Refresh – starting with this blog.
Until next time, I will continue to breathe life back into my words and not lose contact with the world out there.
To prove I am embracing the Year of the Snake, here is a phote taken (quite) a few years ago. That’s me, two snakes and a toad on my head. One of my very favorite pictures.
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 Amazon, Twitter and Facebook pages, if you care to share your thoughts with me there or look for any publication announcements.
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It is now almost the end of January and February may be the hottest one in history. It’s going to be an interesting year for many reasons.
