One thing at a time, time is one thing to listen to

I can't seem to focus. 

Sometimes to focus I need to put words down in sequence.

I've become a person who gets to paid to write and I need a lot of organization to make that work out. 

A Kraftwerk song plays on the turntable and I realize halfway through the song that it is playing at the wrong speed. 

"Why is there a woman singing a song with Kraftwerk?" I wondered.

As I type these words I'm not sure what I was doing a few minutes ago. Work, presumably. After spending a week with my rapidly declining parents, I'm questioning my own mindset as I seem to try to do a lot with my brain without giving it much rest.

I'm awake early to get to work because I feel I need to get a newsletter out quickly. 

I was awake before the sun and I don't want to work but the other part of me does. The two of me are always disagreeing. Forcing myself to write a clarifying set of paragraphs hopefully will allow me to get up to speed. 


After the first song is over, I turn the player to the correct speed and begin the record over. I inherited these albums from a housemate who died during COVID and left all of his stuff here. He did not die of COVID but of symptoms related to alcohol withdrawal. 

I am aware that I need to chart a different pathway if I am to accomplish all that I want to accomplish in life. This doesn't have to be an arduous way forward. There is much I can jettison in order to get to where I want. 

Where I want now is to get back to the work. 

It's 6:52 a.m. and Radioactivity sounds much better at its proper speed. 



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