Looking together in the same direction.

Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.

by my favorite poet, Mary Oliver

"Instructions for living a life.

Pay attention.

Be astonished.

Tell about it."

Mary Oliver


Monday, March 30, 2020

The new normal

     Empty playgrounds blocked off by caution tape are the new normal.  I didn't see a single child out today and only 3 adults walking dogs. It is a good thing.  Coloradans are taking the stay at home order very seriously.  I miss the old normal, though.
      I've been drifting aimlessly lately....binging on Netflix losing track of time and days. It is time to change.


We are...




Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

But you can always be immature




It is eerie out.  I just walked my dog.  NO ONE is out.  No walkers or joggers or even any cars.
                       
                                       Me, this past week.


                                     Karma.

Monday, March 16, 2020

LOL







     So enough stress eating and binge watching Netflix.....the sun is shining, I got outside with my dog, the parks are full of hiking families.  I will watch zero news or social media to save my sanity this week, and will eat better.  I will be staying home.  That's my plan. What's yours?



Sunday, March 8, 2020

Happy international women's day









     It feels like spring in suburbia.  There are colorful pelotons of cyclists speeding by, for sale signs are springing up in yards, and there is the echo of woodpeckers hammering on the siding of neighborhood homes. It is getting difficult to find sufficiently deep patches of snow for my dog to roll in, something she loves and I appreciate, also, as it gets the mud off.
     I am realizing my dog is aging.  She enjoys slow strolls where she can sniff and mark her place in the world. Running is no longer for her. So now we walk and do what gives her joy.
   
   

“Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. ” ― Archimedes


     This is an amazing memoir of Amaryllis Fox's 10 years in the CIA's clandestine ops unit. She writes well and is a peacemaker at heart, which makes the CIA seem less onerous.  It is a good read.



"I think about how everybody believes that they are the good guy.  And how the trick of the thing is seeing that, from one angle or another, we all actually are"


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