Stabilizing oneself is an ongoing adventure, controlled not by personal ambition so much as the fulfillment of scheduled daily tasks. First attend to what is at hand. Admittedly for the agèd community in particular, many of the routine activities centre upon medical purpose. It is an unanticipated abridgement directed to the depictions of one’s family physician or corresponding specialist who in turn have carriage of one’s well being.

Once those necessities are complete, the rigidity of the day evaporates.  One is then at liberty to indulge the open air, the wandering spirit, the acknowledged repetition of habit and preference.

Today there wasn’t the encouragement of sunshine or azure skies. But the air was warm enough to sustain the open windows in the car. And we had the foresight to precede that euphoria with an exceedingly complementary meal from the good people at Neat Café where we lunched today.