It’s now the third day since The Park’s festival ended and I am wrestling to reclaim my former daily schedule so that I might have that balance again. I return to teaching this Sunday and I had planned for this to be my rest and recovery week.

My goal for this week is to rest, read, regroup from pre-“A Carillon Christmas,” clean the house, and attend to the purging of each room throughout the house. Some rooms will be divided into portions, especially the kitchen and my study which is sorted into teaching, business, and writing/research. I calculate this to take two weeks. While I embark on this project, it is a formidable task.

When I launched this blog post, it was 11:45 AM and it is now moving close to 3:45 PM. I have allowed interruptions for tidying up in the kitchen, eating a late lunch, enjoying The Quartet, responding to several emails (there are quite a few in backlog), downloading and adding Windows 10 to my computer, writing a cover letter, and feeling like a stunned and crazed squirrel in traffic as I play this ridiculous, much-needed game of “catch-up.”

The 60-degree temperature is comfortable enough for shorts but very dreary. My Dark Sky weather app was dissolved, and I am getting used to my new The Weather Channel app. With Dark Sky, it concentrated on my area; TWC tends to expand coverage to areas that don’t affect me.

I need to make a list of things to conquer so I am not wandering aimlessly through what I wish to achieve this week.

Make it a great day!