Insurmountable Opportunity

I just noticed something. 

The best chair for drinking morning coffee is in the wrong spot. 

This statement comes with almost as much impact as the diagnosis. 

Last month the Urologist looked my husband straight in the eye

coolly pulled back the lever 

and released three successive pin balls: You. Have. Cancer.

Tilt. 

It happened in slow-mo 

without bells, flashing lights or sounds. 

Just a matter-of-fact observation 

that rose as plainly as the one in front of me, 

that the best chair for drinking morning coffee is in the wrong spot.

Certainly this obstacle is bigger than the usual one. 

Good thing, removing them, 

overcoming them, 

transcending them 

is my forte. 

I've become so accustomed to obstacles that the Spin Doctor I am

 coined a new term for them

a new context: Insurmountable Opportunities. 

And the Universe responded. "Oh yeah?"

"Spin this."

So, Universe, here's my first shot. 

The May Farm already had a story,

 it just wasn't the whole story. 

The whole story is spinning itself.

And then all of a sudden the best chair for drinking morning coffee was miraculously

 in the right place

in the path of a sunbeam. 

I may not know what the ending will be

but I can tell you this much. 

This story is about community.