Someday

Marti Matthews on February 2, 2020

Someday I’ll read all these 280 books on my shelves.

And then, after that, Someday

I’ll mark every photograph in

those five bank boxes, plus the one in the garage,

with dates and identities

for the sake of the grandkids.

I’m going to one-of-these-days develop a

whole chronology of my life

because I can’t remember the years

when things happened.

And then I’m going to clean off my computer and toss

these 1300 old emails, but

I have to read them first.

I have about seven boxes marked “family mementos” which

Someday I really should go through and

see what they are.

But the old financial records – they really must

get sorted and organized and tossed or shredded.

There are family histories from several different branches of the family tree

that should just be gathered together into one place.

I’d like to go back to Sweden Someday and maybe Ireland, too; they were delightful,

but I also haven’t seen Germany or England yet.

But tomorrow I have to return a faucet handle to the hardware,

buy groceries and cook some chicken,

also cook the whole cauliflower before it spoils,

and do at least one load of laundry, water the plants,

pay the tax estimates and

balance the checking account. I really should

call Graciella: she needs encouragement.

I’ll have to wait till Wednesday to start

marking the photographs or

sorting mementos.

Whoops, – doctors appointment on Wednesday.

If I have any energy left tonight after washing dishes

and reading emails, I’ll start one of those 280

books I want to read.

Oh yes. I still could start working on my PhD.!

Also, Someday I’m going to

lose 20 pounds.