Women in Motion

Agony in the night. The digital clock reads 12:45AM. I have shooting pain in my hip and knee with no place to position myself. I have a heating pad to help alleviate the pain. I have crazy dreams about sentences I should be writing down. I finally get up at 5AM. I remember the pain subsides if I get up and have breakfast and take Ibuprofen 800 and coffee. I step into the shower and the hot water feels good. Swimming will help too but my nights and mornings are extremely painful.

I am thinking about my amazing cousin Sue who survived brain surgery and is determined to continue being athletic. We met recently after being separated by 40 years. We laugh about both having the physical thing. Something our siblings don't share. She teaches skiing and horseback riding to delinquents and seniors. I walk swim and dance as punctuation to my solitary writing life. We are both women in motion.