Since my return home I have been busy with chores galore! It's a seemingly never ending process when I
come back from a long stay abroad.
My lodgings are in need of a thorough cleanup; my plants,
which always endure my absence thanks to the occasional watering by a friend, necessitate
lots of pruning of old leaves and branches; my accumulated printed mail demands
immediate attention to sort out important communications and bills, among hundreds
of posts, sales catalogs, junk stuff, and an innumerable amount of solicitations
from a variety of charities.
My sleeping pattern is out of whack for at least a week,
due to jet-lag, but waking up in the middle of the night offers quiet times to
take care at least of the desk and related paperwork. There is not much time to
rest during the day since I am also due for medical checkups that in NY require
lots of additional time to travel to and from related medical establishments.
All of this goes on while the body attempts physical
readjustments to the change of environment, which is quite noticeable to me, as
I age. NY weather greatly affects my osteoarthritis, which does not bother me
when abroad; thus, while at home, I have to resume my physio-therapeutic
sessions and take analgesic medication
from time to time.
The heat waves of this summer have taken a toll everywhere. I
am used to the mostly humid ones in NY for more than half a century, although
getting in and out of highly air conditioned areas, taxes our body, but the current 'African
temperatures' being experienced in the Mediterranean areas during these past
few weeks are hard to endure, especially for people that cannot afford the time
to go to the beaches or on vacation somewhere else.
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