No New Year's Resolutions

As anyone who has ever skidded down a high cliff knows, one's hands and feet slide, skitter, and grab for purchase; and that is where I feel myself to be, on top of two towering, conjoined life tasks that have loomed over me for many years.  I am unable to find purchase on them:  them being (1) to collect a very large debt that is owed to me, and (2) to write an account of how that debt came to be.  I am sliding down what is left of my life too precipitously to do what needs to be done to complete my tasks.  I am weak and I cannot not bring myself to resolve that this year is the year that I accomplish them.

No New Year's Resolutions

by Annmarie Throckmorton, copyright 2024