Housecleaning

After almost fifty years, I'm sick of it. More and more I'm letting it slide. I resent all the days I've thought of doing something creative and ended up dusting or scrubbing instead. My time is limited, since it seems that I must spend much of the morning reading and observing nature through my front windows. We are never unique or alone. I came across a little haiku written by Issa who lived in Japan two hundred years ago. "Spider/do not worry/I keep house casually." According to a biography found by Google, "Issa's poems have given consolation to generations of readers."