Changes. To the Green Square. But since I use square pictures here- you can't see that it's actually a Green rectangle. I added the pink circle to the center. It changed everything. It wanted to be lighter. More joyous yesterday. Got additions of the yellow with black specks. Joy. Love. Inner Peace.
It was supposed to be heavily starched and pressed with a hot iron. It hasn't been. Not as yet.
I was busy with the newspaper and my breakfast. Then coffee. Then making Chicken Soup. I will get up from this desk every so often to check on the Simmering Soup. Not too much simmer. Not too little. My re-heated morning coffee and a sweet navel orange here on the desk with me.
Yesterday the ornaments came off the tree and were packed up. In the packing I discovered, at the very bottom of the box, two different kinds of stars. I had Stars. I had forgotten to bring them out. But now they are on the top layer of the box for next year. And next year I will forget something else. One string of lights is off the tree- the one with many lights dysfunctional. The Tree is still a comfort to me.
Daughter's car was picked up yesterday afternoon. Daughter reports the drive is "less loosey -goosey" Which had her father and I looking at each other in shock. She has a sticker. She has new "struts". I imagine at least one someone out there knows what they are? what they do? Other than "be loosey goosey" when they wear out? I have a feeling they hold the car together.
The library sent notice. After over a week of not having even ONE Book to read-- I have seven or eight books now. And they are the very best of books. An excuse to stop watching so much news commentary. To rest my nerves. I will limit myself to PBS News Hour. Perhaps Nicole Wallace at 4pm. I will bury myself in someone else's story.
My disbelief yesterday: Capital Police taking selfies with the crowd breaking into the Capitol Building. did they think about that at all when they decided to do it? I laughed when Mitch's wife was the first one jumping off the "sinking boat". Betsy was second- "...thinking of the children who watched the Capitol etc". I wrote a few bad words but deleted them.
My little dog and I go for a walk.
ReplyDeletethe rain has gone,
muted sunshine filters through the clouds.
we head down neighborhood paths,
up asphalt street,
then graveled roads,
back to the muddy needled paths.
I smell the tinge of joy
in the evergreen treed winter air
Not quite full on joyous but the hint is there.
-Susan Sawatzky
Struts are a type of automotive suspension system that uses the top of a telescopic damper as the upper steering pivot. This came from my resident CarGuy. Struts are usually in the front suspension of a car. Very expensive.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you will have a wealth of books. I just returned my last two.
ReplyDeleteAnd, I need new struts too. Sad to hear that they are expensive.