Healing

The Place with the blue open flag was transplanted uptown into my small village from elsewhere a few years back. So many sharp victorian angles in such a crowded area make an interesting architectural location for shops. This was taken the week before Xmas when it was a toasty 60 degrees F. (Notice the decoration on the lamp-post).
...
I've finally cleared up most of my sinus discomfort of the past week, just today.
I'd raise the flag, but I'm too pooped!
...
I'd lost my voice for a few days, n couldn't even answer phone calls. At work it was very inconvenient trying to get loud people to listen to me n I relied on people close by relaying whispered messages.
I had to go outdoors on that one very frigid day here of zero windchill, 13 degrees F. deep-freeze. I wore layers n layers, but still, my lips got so chapped they're now still painfully crackling with scabs from being freeze-dried...
...
I'm thankful some of my aloe vera plants survived this year, put into use to naturally sooth my raw lips n nose. I got the original plant from my mother's neighbor in the early '80s. Now only a few of the twenty+ I once had propagated from it are left. Over the years they've helped heal up many hurtful burns, sunburns, n skin abrasions. For me these plants are necessary household equiptment.
...
All the things which got put on hold have not begun to clear-up, tho-. Mail to be read, bills to be paid, no chores completed, some left in a half-way state that normally would drive me nuts. The frig needs cleaning, cause I couldn't eat the food in so long. There's stuff to go into a box just sitting there next to the box...
...
But am I getting back to all that? Of course not, I'd much rather write a few things, like my blog. It's been too long since I've felt this comfortable to do anything. It is a day off, after all, n I can finally breath or even bend-down (without gushing forth) if I need to.
...
I made it outside during daylight n walked up the hill inside the woods for a few moments. I had to go deliver a payment across town n made an excuse to sidetrack to my fav beach for sunset. It was 30 degrees F. out, with a gusty windchill in the 20's, at low tide.
I love the deserted beach this way. Even one other person somehow feels intrusive to me. I tried to ignore the two other folks with the same idea. I walked over the huge piles of washed up red n green seaweeds with attached shells to the wet sand zone n kept company with the gulls awhile.
...
A bit cold, but so beautiful a setting... It's my method for celebrating my life. A way I thank the Creator for allowing me to be here, n for healing me once again. These surroundings comfort my spirit, even in the harshest wind, in a way man-made places never have...