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I broke my ankle. \u00a0\u00a0No! \u00a0I can\u2019t have a broken ankle. \u00a0\u00a0Go back together you bones! \u00a0I have things to do, scores of things and I need to be efficient to get them done. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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You see I have to keep the world rolling, round and round on its axis–or at least my world. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I have to keep the business running and money coming in so that I can keep the debts at bay. \u00a0There\u2019s the business loans and the house at the beach, the empty house at the beach, that no one wants, especially us. \u00a0\u00a0Then there\u2019s the insurance payments, in case one of us dies, we can pay off the debts. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The debts, they bark quietly each month for their payments, \u00a0softly at first and you better not miss one because they will start to bark loudly and gain weight, adding interest and fees–for spite.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And then there\u2019s my bedsheets. \u00a0\u00a0My sheets need changing. \u00a0\u00a0They needed changing before I broke my ankle. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And my clothes are piling up on the chair in the bedroom. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I hang up my clothes. \u00a0\u00a0Why are they piling up over there? \u00a0\u00a0And the room is dusty and the bathroom, oh my–I\u2019m embarrassed. \u00a0\u00a0It was just a little dusty around the edges before I broke my ankle. \u00a0Now, \u00a0it all looks pretty scummy. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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I leave a trail of dishes and cups on the counters and tables. \u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s a lot of effort to pick up after myself. \u00a0\u00a0I never knew how much mess I created now that I can\u2019t pick things up so efficiently and wisp them away, \u00a0into the dishwasher. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Just turning around in the kitchen to get a cup out of the cabinet is an effort–scoot, scoot, scoot, hop–open the cabinet, get the cup, \u00a0close the cabinet and repeat–in reverse. \u00a0\u00a0Before, oh before, \u00a0it was blissfully smooth–pivot, reach, open, grab, close, pivot–seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shifting, yes that\u2019s it. \u00a0The world, my world is shifting. \u00a0\u00a0I lie to myself that I\u2019m controlling things, running things. \u00a0I\u2019m not, really. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The world is spinning all on it\u2019s own. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m in the spin, \u00a0rolled my ankle in the process–pop goes the weasel. \u00a0\u00a0It will all work out, this way or that. \u00a0\u00a0No need to worry–spin away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Glenda Kotchish<\/span><\/p>\n

April 1, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n

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I broke my ankle. \u00a0\u00a0No! \u00a0I can\u2019t have a broken ankle. \u00a0\u00a0Go back together you bones! \u00a0I have things to do, scores of things and I need to be efficient to get them done. \u00a0   You see I have to keep the world rolling, round and round on its axis–or at least my world. … Continue reading Spinning Along<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[83,85,45,84],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay-more-or-less","tag-ankle","tag-broken-bone","tag-business","tag-spinning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/whirligig-773644_640.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glendakotchish.com\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}