A numberless day in my hospital stay…. I’ve noted the passing days by the perennial garden below my window. Each of these gauzy rainy days, the greenery brushes out further. The crabapples bloom. On the hillside, emerald stretches over branches, a multifaceted palette of leaves.
As for me — survived this surgery (hurray, yes) — and I’m now cared for by family who cycle in and out, messages and emails and gifts from friends, kind and competent hospital staff. My great thanks to readers to have reached out to me, or simply read my words. Surgery, indeed, for a laywomen like myself, is an oddity. Scalpel to flesh cannot be an everyday occurrence in a life. I relied on the surgeon’s precision. Grateful, grateful, I am for these skills. Soon, I’ll be home again, in the everyday world of my bright kitchen, our cozy front porch, garden. The lilacs will bloom.
One of our house’s great gems is the lilac bushes that span three sides, in varying lengths. The first spring we lived here, I invited friends for dinner. They got out of their car and stood in the driveway, reveling in the lilacs’ perfume.
While here, I picked up a copy of Loving Frank, Nancy Horan’s fictionalized love story of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mameh Borthwick, which ended in a horrific tragedy. Here’s a line from the incomparable Wright worth thinking over: “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
Stony Soil Vermont 
So glad to hear you are on the other side of this latest turn. We think of you often & hope for continued healing 🌷. Nancy & Art
Always lovely to hear from you. 💜
Glad you are recovering with the perfume of your lilacs. There is nothing like it.
So agree! Lilacs are such a great joy.
Thank you for taking us along
Thank you for coming!
I’m glad you got through this new surgery, and hope you are home very soon. Love lilacs!
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Continued, virtual hugs from S.C. 💕
Thank you! 💕
You, like Wright, have taken every ounce of beauty along your way as you navigate your way through this challenge. I hope you are soon among your lilacs.
I appreciate this…. Thank you! 👩🌾
I so appreciate your posts – the detail, the immediacy, the honesty and the hope. Also the quotes you add. You have opened my literary world while also reminding me how very precious every moment is. Thank you and warmest wishes for your continued healing and health.
Thank you for writing. This is what I’m aiming for. Warmest wishes back to you.
What a beautiful quote Brett! I will keep that, a thing of beauty itself.
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Love lilacs. They are a gorgeous heavenly scented old fashioned flower that does not seem as prevalent as they used to be. Swift and painless recovery.
That’s interesting. These may not be as prevalent. Lilacs were all through my childhood. In addition to their beauty, lilacs are tough as heck.
Which is one of the reasons I am surprised not fo find more of them in Virginia–they grow well here I believe.
I’m pleased to hear that the surgery went well and that home bacons. Here’s hoping you are at home and at ease soon.
I am at home and slowly but steadily improving!
Wow! To you and Frank Lloyd Wright. And congratulations.
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All good wishes.
Gwen.
Thank you!!