The sky is cloudless, the temperature is perfect and \u00a0I am torn between being in the dirt \u00a0planting vegetable seeds, tomato and jalapeno pepper plants – or writing. \u00a0Since I seem to only be able to write in solitude, when R leaves to run an errand, I drop my spade and dash inside to write, and when his car pulls in the driveway, I head back to pull weeds and water plants. And in this way, I find a kind of rhythm.<\/p>\n
Here I am inside now – garden gloves abandoned in the dirt. \u00a0I have less than an hour before M is home from school. \u00a0A room of my own? \u00a0I imagine such a place for myself \u00a0and maybe, one day we can transform the crawl space – not quite an attic. \u00a0 But if I could really disappear for hours on end to a cubby of my own, away from them and our shared life, would I? Certainly, if this was my ‘work’ but not now. \u00a0All moments beyond the hours spent at my job are carefully mined and \u00a0ultimately, it is the time I spend with these ones I love, that is most precious to me. But were I to win the lottery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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