Brooklyn Sweet Brooklyn: August 2013

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Changes

(Photo Credit: Tate Tullier)

Lately it has been darn near impossible for me to post something. My camera is not quite working--it will not focus. Maybe it's the lens? I have to take my camera to the shop and see what's up with that. But I have plenty of photos to choose from.

Being pregnant with a toddler who suddenly MUST walk whenever we go out (no strollers, Mama, and absolutely no carrying!) is no walk in the park. I am tired. Most of the time I feel as if I closed my eyes long enough I could fall into the deepest, the most delicious slumber ever. Unfortunately that does not happen, not even at night when in bed. I am not sleeping well.

I think it is the changes in my body as well as the air. Summer is ending; fall is coming. This family of three is turning into a family of four. The cellar still is not finished so our second floor is still in upheaval. I am going to teach a couple courses starting tomorrow.

Changes are also coming to those close and dear to us. Doug's father, my mother. For a long time we talked about those changes as if they were a distant possibility; now they are imminent and real.

I am so sorry to be cryptic; some of those changes are not mine to share yet but sooner than later those changes will manifest themselves in future posts.

Douglas and I are purging the contents from the cellar, including our photo albums. He came across this photograph of my mother and left it on my bureau. The photograph of my mother reminds me that changes are always happening, right under our noses. It is just every now and then that those little shifts in life add up to a completely new direction that cannot be ignored and must be taken.