Gardening and reading — or listening to good books — occupy my imagination and keep me steady. Heaven knows they are better topics to engage than most today! As Mother’s Day passed, when I knew I might safely plant, I stuck some seeds and and bulbs in the freshly...
The Observation Still Works Elinor Dashwood’s observation works for me: she expressed the restraint our current events necessitates: “And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” (Sense in Sensibility) Just...
The Setting: May, Moonlight and Magnolias It was a walk in late May, filled with bright moonlight and magnolias .No phone photos memorialized the walk; they should have! How do I capture that on a cell phone? There is a sweetness of May verging on June that no other...
These times — that COVID-19 magnified —-have surely taught me how like a sheep I am. And I don’t mean cute and cuddly! I am skitterish and willful. By that, I mean I can worry and wander — looking for a reassuring voice, who echos what I want to hear. Now, Doug is...
As this pandemic continues, the learning curve continues, and seems to lengthen. How teachable am I willing to be? This time last year, I anticipated a learning curve because of the shock of COVID-19* Quarantining, masking, social distancing, vaccinating, etc — these...
So, I am venturing forth, yet I might still freak. We have attended church in person, had dinner with family; Doug actually went into a restaurant a with a friend! Plus, I went to IN-PERSON Bible study! (Reading aloud 1 Timothy and Titus with friends, I see how I can...
Is it over yet? This really should be over. Seriously. I am almost two weeks past my second shot, and I need to be getting on with my life! Wait -- Did someone say "FOURTH surge"? Researchers NPR spoke to all cautioned that public policy and Americans' behavior can...
There we were, in our first traffic jam in over a year. We hadn't factored traffic into our ETA ! For a year Rt. 2 was always almost empty! Weird was how it felt. Well, the whole day was weird . . . we both felt under so much pressure! We had three simple chores to...
Last week I occupied myself with three small paintings. Two were disasters, requiring immediate Gesso interventions. One was worth keeping, the first one. Looking at it, though, I can see the proportions aren’t right: too much container compared to the tulips. Well,...
Readers who write me after reading my blog often point me to answers to prayers I hadn’t realized I prayed. Case in point: This morning a friend read of my tension and described how another friend was able to sign her up in person at the M&T Ravens Stadium in...
Tension builds and wanes daily as I chase down shots – COVID Vaccine shots, specifically. The luck of the draw is not with me: No appointments available in my area . . . for days. Trusting, I am then that God’s providence is with me. It’s tempting to freak;, imagining...
Don’t Look Back my owl meme counsels: You aren’t going that way. But I still look back over last year’s journal entries. I am looking for any premonition of the trouble that defined 2020. Nada. Unaware I was; totally. But, I noted some advice that now seems...
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