Kind promise: I will consecrate each moment.

Musical dynamics chart from www.piano-play-it.com

Musical dynamics chart from www.piano-play-it.com

My assistive software
(Dragon Naturally Speaking)
insists on typing piano
PNO

What is it thinking?

Parent’s Night Out?
Public Network Operator?
Property Notarization Order?
Plasma-Nitrided Oxide?

thefreedictionary.com has
many suggestions…

Once I get past
giggling over –
and wishing I agreed with –
Pecunia Non Olet
(Latin: money does not smell)

I contemplate
Planned Nonoperation (vehicle status)
as a synonym for
multiple sclerosis (secondary progressive)

My right arm is so
heavy today
and once it goes
I will be truly quadriplegic

A word the software spells with ease
but with which I have trouble

25 years ago
my cane and I
spoke to elementary school children
about MS.
Difficulty walking
was all I had to show them.
One little boy gasped with horror.
“How do you live?” he asked.

I thought it
a brilliant question then.

Here I am
finding the answers
gently
softly
piano