My town, which is known for its quirky holiday parties, is planning a July 4th parade. We also have a town-wide Halloween party and Christmas Illumination, when we turn on hundreds of thousands of lights that decorate the green. Everyone plays a part. I answer letters to Santa, left at the local library by children. It’s magical.
So I’m thinking how this July 4, Oct. 31, and the first Saturday in December (when the light switch gets flipped) will be so different from last year’s, when the green was quiet (though the town did rally to install the lights and then turned them on kind of quiet-like). I walked to the green nearly every night to look at them.
But I missed the parties, and I’m grateful we’re getting them back.
So tell me something good in your life. My list would be longer but I don’t want to hog all the room.
My something good is finally going to a family gathering last weekend - a baby shower for my niece. Even though they're all local I haven't seen much of my nieces and their kids during the pandemic. Seeing my sisters, my nieces and one of my great nieces all in one place with no masks or social distancing was heaven.
Mine too, Susan, but here’s one: a social media friend put me onto an art show at his alma mater focusing on the years my 97-year-old dad and late mom studied and taught with him, and so Colby Museum put the Roy Liechtenstein Foundation onto him and he’s being interviewed for their Oral History Project next week; he certainly took his time making it into the Smithsonian, but I’m grateful for the year of living remotely which gave me time to meet that FB friend without whom (along with COVID-19 blessedly not darkening our door) this never might’ve happened.
I tend a row in the community garden at a community farm. This year, we get to garden without masks. Every row is taken, and volunteers from around the community show up to help on volunteer days. Life grows.
Life grows. I love that. Today will be spent staining a fence. I most likely won't finish, but I'll be outside, listening to a book on my ear buds, and breathing in nasty fumes that will make me inordinately happy.
I had dinner with friends--all vaccinated--a couple of weeks ago who I hadn't seen since March 2020 except on Zoom. Today my Sherlock Holmes Society is meeting in real life for the first time since last year. It will be a hybrid meeting, as some people will still attend via Zoom. (One has moved to Florida.) Ain't technology grand?
My sixteen-year-old son is wonderful, and I am very slowly getting fruit trees planted. And though I have a big on-the-other-hand I am capable of not writing it down here.
Tell me something good... Ok, it's like life has exploded into living more fully and with more gratitude. The last couple of weeks have been jam packed with gatherings, celebrations, life moving on events, hugs, classes, an advocacy summit where I heard some awesome speakers, moving furniture, meeting new people, being with my family, projects.....PEOPLE & PURPOSE & ACTIVITY with a ton of soaking it all in. After a year and a half of feeling lousy, I feel better than I have in a long time. I think as I do more and more just normal things, I will be more aware than I was pre-COVID and live more in the moment. At least I hope I will for a long while. I hope that's true for most of us.
My something good is finally going to a family gathering last weekend - a baby shower for my niece. Even though they're all local I haven't seen much of my nieces and their kids during the pandemic. Seeing my sisters, my nieces and one of my great nieces all in one place with no masks or social distancing was heaven.
How awesome! And congratulations to your niece!
My grandkids...
They're the absolute best, aren't they? One of mine is teaching me how to send special-effects texts on my phone. He's 9 and quite skilled at it.
After a year of nearly complete isolation, I am having visits with treasured friends and hugs, incredibly healing hugs! Best ever.
A good cup of coffee, a nice slice of toast, and your newsletter in the morning.
Stop sucking up. I've already turned in the grades.
Oh. Sorry. I've been writing that email quite a lot lately. Thank you, friend.
But I wanted the A not the C-.
Mine too, Susan, but here’s one: a social media friend put me onto an art show at his alma mater focusing on the years my 97-year-old dad and late mom studied and taught with him, and so Colby Museum put the Roy Liechtenstein Foundation onto him and he’s being interviewed for their Oral History Project next week; he certainly took his time making it into the Smithsonian, but I’m grateful for the year of living remotely which gave me time to meet that FB friend without whom (along with COVID-19 blessedly not darkening our door) this never might’ve happened.
That's very cool.
I tend a row in the community garden at a community farm. This year, we get to garden without masks. Every row is taken, and volunteers from around the community show up to help on volunteer days. Life grows.
Life grows. I love that. Today will be spent staining a fence. I most likely won't finish, but I'll be outside, listening to a book on my ear buds, and breathing in nasty fumes that will make me inordinately happy.
I had dinner with friends--all vaccinated--a couple of weeks ago who I hadn't seen since March 2020 except on Zoom. Today my Sherlock Holmes Society is meeting in real life for the first time since last year. It will be a hybrid meeting, as some people will still attend via Zoom. (One has moved to Florida.) Ain't technology grand?
My first hug of a friend a few weeks back made me so very happy. Yay!
My sixteen-year-old son is wonderful, and I am very slowly getting fruit trees planted. And though I have a big on-the-other-hand I am capable of not writing it down here.
First this & coffee:
https://youtu.be/cm_cFzVAoo8
CHAKA KHAN!!!!
Tell me something good... Ok, it's like life has exploded into living more fully and with more gratitude. The last couple of weeks have been jam packed with gatherings, celebrations, life moving on events, hugs, classes, an advocacy summit where I heard some awesome speakers, moving furniture, meeting new people, being with my family, projects.....PEOPLE & PURPOSE & ACTIVITY with a ton of soaking it all in. After a year and a half of feeling lousy, I feel better than I have in a long time. I think as I do more and more just normal things, I will be more aware than I was pre-COVID and live more in the moment. At least I hope I will for a long while. I hope that's true for most of us.