Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully, including my struggles to maintain a balanced life, what I listen to, read, and watch for entertainment, and occasional bits of information I’ve gleaned from doing the research for my novels.
Daily Diary, Day 1304:
I’m going to try and make this short today, because as usual for Thursdays, I have a zoom meeting in the middle of the day and a possible meeting afterwards. Yesterday, was another productive day in terms of getting my walks in and my yoga. I also had a scheduled phone call and got to sit outside in the sun and do some more reading of Tides of Acerba. Today is still gray, although there is supposed to be a little sun in the afternoon. If it’s warm enough, I may try sitting outside because this may be the last time we see sun until Monday or Tuesday.
The hand gets a tiny bit better every day, and at this point, it only seems to be typing and washing dishes (from squeezing the sponge?) that kicks up any pain. I go tomorrow morning for a follow up with the physician’s assistant, who drained my stye a couple of weeks ago and he’s going to evaluate whether or not it needs to be drained again. It certainly hasn’t healed completely, and I feel as if it is causing some general soreness in all my sinuses on that side of my head.
But overall, I feel so much better than I did five weeks ago when this all started, that I need to keep that in mind when I start to get impatient!
I noticed this succulent this morning that really intrigued me, so I took a couple of photos. As usual, I welcome anyone who wants to tell me its name, and I apologie if you’ve already done this, because the truth is I have never been able to retain the names of plants, so I can’t even blame this on aging!
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I have never seen this exact plant, but It is similar to a wild orchid that is called Heliaborne (sp)? That grew in the woods in Michigan. Very interesting!
It's a variety of yucca plant.