Well Made Things
Just like comfort food, we all have comfort things: those few things we’ve had forever that never let us down.
Grateful for Free Music
Watching the iHeart Living Room Concert last night, I began to feel so grateful to the artists performing free music during this pandemic. There is something for everyone. I like this one above, Neil Diamond singing Sweet Caroline with COVID-19 lyrics… Hands, washing hands Don’t touch me I won’t touch you! [ta-da-dah-dah] Sweet Caroline… Even my kids are amused. Need something uplifting? Try the students at the Berkelee school of music singing, “What the world needs now.” Need something more…
Appreciation for Sunday
If you’ve ever wished for a month of Sundays, you may have gotten your wish. We’re trying to keep Sunday special. In my house, we’re working to differentiate the days of the week. Meatless Mondays. Taco Tuesdays. Philbin Fridays. And then there’s Sunday. Sunday is a day to do what we want. No is even trying to accomplish anything. Breakfast is leaking into afternoon. Puzzles, reading, anything goes that will pass a few hours pleasantly. The dog, who has yet…
Thankful for Courageous Leadership
I’m thankful for real and courageous leadership wherever I find it. A couple days ago, Angela Markell made a plea to her people to save lives and come together as a democracy for the good of all. This is what leadership looks like, telling the truth, addressing people’s concerns with empathy and compassion, offering a vision for the future that inspires people to do the right thing. Worth watching.
Grateful for Soap
Soap. It’s a wonderfully low-tech solution in a high tech world. I’m appreciating soap anew. First of all, there’s the way it smells. Lavender. Lemon verbena. Geranium. Just the clean smell of a pure soap like Ivory makes me feel better. Liquid, bars, or even powdered, I like them all. Anything washed in soap and water suddenly feels healthful, bright, and somehow virtuous. I’m glad to have chemical wipes like Clorox and Purell when I can get them, but my…
Signs of Spring
Grateful today for these beautiful crocuses at the side of my driveway and other signs of spring. Forsythia buds. The nest with peeping chicks at the corner of the garden. Warmer days that promise better times ahead. These lines from Gerard Manley Hopkins have been ringing in my head today: And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown…