Just when you think...

Just when you think... you've got that figured out, when you think there'll be a lull, when you think the perfect solution has finally revealed itself...reality makes a fool of you again. Oh, I don't mean it's always earth-shaking, just confoundedly annoying.



Sometimes, however, it's neither. Our state until a very few years ago didn't have single osteopathic physician listed online. Recently (within a year or so) one joined the practice I use for primary care. One day this week, I went to him about resistant pain. He prescribed and administered a steroid shot in the hip that hurt. For over six months, I haven't put weight on that leg, let alone walking or climbing, without pretty bad pain. It's gone! Just as I was prepared to bow to my age and infirmity, I'm walking as well as I did ten years ago--minus the strength that now I can imagine regaining.

Just when I was thinking... that I had some really free days coming up that would let me try to concentrate on writing some new poems, I was asked to do an interview for Mountain Views, our newsletter. Without going into detail, this is of interest not just for me, so I accepted the assignment. Then I read several of the proposed questions to be answered (thank goodness someone besides me thought them up!) and I realize I have a real task on my hands. I guess it could be touched lightly and satisfy the request, but now I see how involved it could be, and now I want to make it what the media like to call "in depth." So just when I thought I wasn't going to have to try anything really difficult...

If there's a lesson here, there must be more than one: things change when you don't expect them to (check); things look up when you don't expect them to (check); but maybe most of all, you better not decide to say "never" unless you really mean it. You can go on with that thought quite a long way...