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My usual way of dealing with unease used to be withdrawal. From the world, from other people, from activity, but I realize that there has been a subtle shift over the last eight years.

Now I find myself trying to do something different when I am sad, or edgy, or just off balance in some way.

I've tried biking, walking, writing, drawing, painting, joining a meetup group, getting together with the Ironwood Ladies, volunteering, even dyeing my hair red!

Like anything, I have grown used to these things, so they don't always help. I know people who would say that they are only running away from my problems, that I should be meditating. Well, I do that too, but at my age I do whatever is necessary.

I may only have a few more years to live and even if I have another thirty, I'd like to do as much living as possible in that time.

So now I'm taking a pottery class and I joined a gym.

Who knows what I'll do tomorrow.