incapacitated...

by a sinus infection, my right temple is screaming in agony. Meanwhile, my HMO's doctors stare at me with a certain-I-don't-know-what-you're-expecting-from-us kind of look besmeared on their unaffected mugs.

A special day indeed, a potently transformational celestial configuration, astrologically speaking, in case you're wondering -and I'll spare us the tediousness that comes with details. Energies are shifting, and there is no way around what's coming, and as they say in Monte Carlo, "Les jeux sont faits."

Amazing how weak a body can be. One day in top form, the next a hapless wreckage. I missed my yoga class last evening, as I was beaten into submission by a lousy and admirably determined migraine. But I'll be teaching from sunset to eight tonight, and that's how far I'm planning my life today.

Winters are cold up here, and my brain, and let us not forget my resolve, seem to be straining in this formidably alien setting, a bit like the blue Focus which was doing much better down where parrots hang in groups atop skinny bodied palm trees. Such a large country, yet I do not see myself in it. How do you plan a future when almost everything seems so far off center? Can fish leave their waters? And I am not discussing evolution here. Can frogs croak in the heat of a dry desert? Oh, I know this all temporary, believe me, there is no need to remind me... really. And as far as flexibility and adaptability go, there is a point when bone finds bone, with a little sticker on the side to remind us that natural limitations are set for good reasons, and that's all there is to the story.

Writing requires inspiration, and inspiration, in my case, and to each his/her muze, is a festive tent. Now, the last time I checked, there haven't been too many sightings of tents in the Midwest -and I am sure FoxNews wouldn't miss that.

Be well, and don't forget to cover your heads, and to wear your seatbelts -remember what I wrote on the first paragraph about the explosive transformational shifting of energies.

A mere migraine