It’s taken me too long to get back to you. I’m sorry. It’s just that life goes so fast now. It’s not that I am getting slower getting the work done, it’s just that there is so much more work to be done! Why couldn’t we have been this busy when we were young, when we had the energy to do it all – everything – including a busy social life? God! I’m just so glad to get to sit down at night!
I went today to get my hair cut. I went upstairs at the beauty salon to use their bathroom. The upstairs today is furnished as an extra place for Maisy to do her makeup or get a massage or overall just get prettier (I’ve decided that when I write, I will refer to Maisy when I want to write to or about every woman).
It was dark up there and looked as though no one has been using it. Paintings were stacked randomly around the room and I went to search for a good one. I was disappointed to find that every single one was a poor painting of some part of the anatomy of some woman’s body. There was one painting of a man making an ugly funny face that was in reality an ugly picture of an ugly man making an ugly face. I looked more and found not one that was worth any extra perusal or thought.
Then I looked around the room and wondered why I thought that I should stay and try to find an artwork of beauty. I thought perhaps this house – since it is a very old house on our street at 2nd and Arch in Philadelphia – is very old and maybe it is haunted. I looked around and concentrated on the seventh rung of some kind of ladder for knowledge of the spirits that inhabit this house. I was disappointed to find that there did not appear to be any.
So I took a last look around and opened myself to communication with any spirit that lives there. Unfortunately, there was no response and there was no feeling that anything other than me inhabited that room. I walked to the top of the stairs and started down, taking care that my bad ankle does not give away and hoping that no bad spirit would mess up my gate so I took them one at a time. When I got close to the bottom, my ankle gave out and I fell down! So much for no spirits there!