Cilia

Bronchial cilia and positive visualization - not so much these days. Normally, when I think about all my little cilia, I see them standing at attention, alert and bright-eyed, wafting with a hum of productivity and efficiency. Then illness comes along, institutes new policies that make no sense to anyone and requires that they fill out everything in triplicate, and suddenly, they're squashed under the bureaucracy of mucus, which doesn't do much for workplace morale. Blech.

Meanwhile, things to contemplate while lying on the couch: my next popsicle, a bath, and the mucus/bureaucracy metaphor....