My Inability to Blog!

Vince and Willie see an amazingly cool rainbow



Marina getting ready for a swim in Halibut Cove Lagoon



 There was a time several years ago when I spent a lot of time sitting.  Some of this time was spent involved in creative endeavors.  This blog, for instance, was a great way to create!  In my overloaded, current life, I trick myself into thinking that all that sitting time was spent on creative endeavors.     In reality, quite a bit of this time, I would say 55%, was spent in an ADD/depression fueled mental eddy.  I mean really, how much time was I creating and how much was I shopping for plane tickets out of this dark and cold place on Orbitz?  Yes, people could call me and get information on flights out of Anchorage to nearly any tropical destination. I could quote prices...

 Now I look at this blog and fantasize that I had the kind of life where I had time to update it.  This is how JK Rowling must have felt as the Harry Potter series evolved.  Each blog entry as the children get older becomes more complex.  There is so much back story.  There is so much....life!  The days when I could write, "Bunny goes to Lunch" have been replaced with "Gloria is Here."  Who is Gloria?  Where did she come from?  Why have we not heard from her in all these years?  So much back story!  That first Harry Potter book was light and easy and exciting and manageable.  This year...this summer we are on book 5 and I don't know when I will find the time to fill in the back story AND keep up with my school and the housework and keeping the children fed!


Willie slept the entire day after a first shift, second shift, first shift rotation between Petro and McDonalds


Gloria, who is 18 and has just finished graduation from high school is one of Falcom's first sisters.  She lives in Honolulu and is figuring out her next moves in life.  I was painting her nails and we were talking one night and she said, "I remember when Ohnpei was in the hospital and my mom decided we should come and stay with you and Uncle Vince.  It seemed SO random at the time, like, why would the three of us stay with my teacher?  We have family..."

Sleeping otter in Seldovia Harbor

Good question.  What would be different in this life if Vince had said "No, we can't watch them.  Yea, I know that Ohnpei could die, but we're too busy."  How would every single aspect of the past 10 years have been altered?  

 It is remarkable the balance that a successful spiritual life requires.  Action must be happening.  If a person sits on the couch too long, it is impossible for the miracles that spirit intends for us to make their way into our realities.  However, if we are too busy, over booked, over worked, the miracles won't make their way in either. 

Falcom and Gloria at the International Rotary Club Meeting where Falcom performed

How do we do it?  How do I do everything that must be done, everything that I want to get done, all social maintenance kept up, and still have time to let the miracles in?

Willie has made a great new old friend in Gloria.  She understands him, where he comes from, the problems he faces that other American kids can't imagine. 

I am going to think about it while I am jogging.