Instead

Sometimes the things we do instead of the usual things are good.  Sometimes both things are good.  Taking a break from fitness center exercise this week may be a good thing for me... unless, of course, it*s not.  :)

The fitness center

Is closed this week.

They are refinishing

All the floors.

Of course I could go elsewhere

To exercise.

Instead I mark the time

Watch the purple clematis

As it begins its bloom

In front.

The purple has wound its way

Up the post,

Around the chain.

It holds

The welcome butterfly.

Yesterday I worked with a client

She cannot get off the dime

To exercise.

Her goal this week

Is to find someone who will take one walk

With her.

Not a bad goal.

Not a bad goal at all.

She will report to me

Next Wednesday.