Starts and stops and wealth

My starts and stops are part of our problem.  When my husband is bad, I am bad.  It is hard to explain.  I needed to take something back to Comcast.  It sat on my fireplace for months.  I was being charged for it every day.  I could not put the steps to do it in my mind.  I was a former busy woman. A productive woman.  Now I am a woman of starts and stops.  Permanent writers block.  But yesterday a story formed in my brain.  I love when I get my brain back.  I was never a beauty.  It took loads of make up and lots of time to make me look just ok. So I was not too sad to grow old and have my face wrinkle.  but my brain.  I really did love my brain..  I miss it.

 This is my blog and punctuation have my rules.....  I am not going to do a rough draft....this is it.  life does not get a rough draft and then a nice copy.

Ok so here is is.

One of the Lord's tender mercies to me is my water aerobics class every morning.  It gets me up and out and my body feels good and I speak with wise older women. It helps me feel young as I am 20 years younger than most of them. They all have a story and someday I will tell you about each one.  maybe when my brain comes back totally, I will write a book about them. 

Yesterday our instructor, who is 73, mentioned when she was a girl she lived next door to John Wayne.   She and her siblings used to climb over his fence and take his pomegranates.   He told them to come over and he would give them some but they liked climbing the fence.  He once ran into her mom's Cadillac. Her mom never fixed it because she liked telling people John Wayne ran into her car.  I asked what her dad did to live in such an affluent neighborhood. My brain was having an off moment but I think she said some kind of nuclear engineer. She said when she got married she thought she was poor because she had to clean her own swimming pool.  

So that was in my brain at 9 am yesterday and then Richard and I went to the VA for his appointment.  On the way home we saw brilliant lightning strikes and Richard' s smart phone told him it would rain in 4 minutes. We drove past the drug park across from the county building.  Lawyers in suits were stepping up their pace to get inside the building. A woman walking her dog was quickly heading for home.