MOwriter

I feel great. So far so good.

Watching my mother lay in a hospital bed then enter a rest home this weekend made me realize that her choices helped her to get there. Her choice to smoke for 50 years gave her COPD. That is why she’s 80 and hardly able to breathe.

Mom’s generation of people smoked. So many of them did. They got hooked before truly knowing all the facts. Her nursing home is peppered with people chained to oxygen tanks wearing tubes in their noses.

Our generation will be in nursing homes with obesity related problems. Heart disease, complications of diabetes, cancer, stroke…all related to what we put in our mouth. I, for one, have been freaked out at seeing these half-alive people in hospital and nursing homes for the past three weeks. I feel so badly for all of them, especially my mother.

I don’t want to be one of them in 30 years. What’s within my power to change about my habits I will continue to change.

Just write on your first draft. Don’t line edit while your write.

Make sure it’s in a dark place alone. That connection with nature is what makes it perfect.