Saturday, April 14, 2007



Can you see the bee in this flower? While I stood there, trying to get a good bee pic, they noticed me in a way that made me very nervous. They didn't sting me, but they did kind of hang around my hair and smell me. I read somewhere that because of global warming, the pollen the bees are getting is substandard, and the way the flowers get pollinated is off because flowers are opening too early or late in the season. Is it bad of me to hope that bottle brush trees go, if any have to? I see no point to bottle brush trees and they leave those nasty, pointy things on the ground when they shed.

The pain people want me to be witty on the subject of pain for their newsletter. I don't know how to be witty about pain, though. When I write about my child's pain it feels more like I'm aiming a flamethrower at the screen and burning the words into the program than that I am writing anything and I don't know how it comes off funny.

But they think I am funny in general (thanks, guys). Maybe I can find something funny about my own pain, but I never really think about my own. I am so focused on everyone else that, except to note it and swallow a couple of pills, I don't pay attention to my own pain anymore.