{the thin line}

Yesterday started just like any other ordinary day of holidays.  

I woke up around 9ish and pottered around in my PJ's.  I spent time in the studio writing.  I watched my neighbour get his Harley out of the backyard and wondered where he was off to.

Around 10ish I sprayed the oven with cleaning stuff, did some gardening, finished the house clean out I've been doing over the holidays.

Around 12.30ish Ms L and I sat in the backyard and had a ham and tomato sandwich.  Ms L cleaned the BBQ and I made new year plans with friends.

Around 2ish my neighbour came over and we went for a walk.  She said her partner had gone to Malmsbury on the bike and had taken one of their sons.  She said he was supposed to call her when he got there and she hadn't heard from him and she was worried.  I told her it would be fine.  We walked and then had coffee and cake.  She sent him a text saying "Are you safe".  I teased her about her worrying.

Around 6ish I went to the shops for a few supplies and as I got out of the car back at home I happened to notice the air ambulance fly over.  I also got a text from my neighbour saying she'd had no contact from her partner all day and was starting to worry.

Around 6.30ish I texted her back and reassured her there was nothing to worry about.

At 7.28pm she texted me to tell me that her partner and son were both in hospital after coming off the bike rounding a corner.  Her partner was brought by air ambulance to hospital and her son by land ambulance.  Her son has a facial injury and needs surgery.  He partner has a broken ankle and broken vertebrae in two places.  He will have a number of surgeries and a long recovery.  But they are both OK.  And they are both alive.

It seemed like any other day, but it wasn't.  That thin line between ordinary and extreme was stretched so thin it almost broke.

I lay in bed last night and I thought about Cam.  I thought about lots of things, but I kept coming back to thinking about Cam and her wait for a new future.  And how the very thing she is waiting on is for that thin line to snap, and how very strange that must be.

Before I met Cam I never really thought about organ donation.  Now I think about it often.  Not just in terms of my own wishes, but the whole idea.  How important it is to have the conversation and make your wishes known. How none of us know if and when any old ordinary day might become something other. 

Talk to your people. Have the conversation. Make your wishes known.

I am so very glad that my neighbours aren't having to work through that conversation today.  So very grateful.

Happy New Year my friends.  Be safe! 

{and I will tell you about my gorgeous swap sometime soon}