Beneath the Wraps

                 When I was younger I would often spin around several times until I felt dizzy and stop – either of my own will or because I had crashed into something.  The dizziness was not completely bothersome as a youth as it is as an adult – an aged one at that.              There are times I have felt dizzy due to ear or sinus infections though I don’t ever remember feeling so dizzy that I wanted to throw up.   Well, there was that time when I was pregnant with Jaime and Richard and I were at a movie theatre watching “Limitless” – the opening photography is spinning as I recall or maybe somewhere else in the movie.   I remember looking away as it was making me dizzy.           Getting into a car when I am feeling light headed is not always the best idea. The dizziness had seemingly made me naucious and when we had stopped for gas on the w...

       I had written my last post as a free verse to make it seem more interesting, but I lost the vision of what I had intended. What had triggered my thought on climbing in the first place was watching Roland climb up the unstable ladder.   It looks unstable leaning in mushy ground.   He was fixing the porch light and connecting it to another stapling the cord in place.   I was awed at his ability to look up.             I tend to lose my balance quite easily – especially if I am looking up.   I get dizzy when I am standing still on solid ground.   I think if I were climb a ladder now and looked up I would fall.   I have fallen at least twice because of whatever has made me dizzy.   I fell in my bedroom before we were married.   I don’t remember if I had even known Roland at the time.               My former ...