What's It All About?

Sunday post of self-reflection

I’m having difficulty this morning even coming up with a title let alone sharing any brilliant insight into our current situation. My newspaper delivery was late, and I continue to have trouble formatting my work on the computer, so it seems that negative vibes assaulted me first thing. However, now the paper has arrived and before I sit down to enjoy a long read, I will post something to let everyone know that I actually have great hope that things are looking up. Every day there is some new outrage to upset my equilibrium, but I try to remember that some of the problem lies with the ubiquity of information these days. It helps immensely to avoid it if possible. Quite frankly, I don’t need to know anything more about the candidates for the highest office of the land. My mind was made up before the election in 2016.

Meanwhile, yesterday I mentioned to my gentleman caller that I had run out of lemons but had found a bag of limes on the reduced produce rack when I last shopped. I told him that I was enjoying them in my morning hot water, then regaled him with the fact that we Brits became known as limeys when we were on sailing ships. I wasn’t sure whether that was a pejorative, though. Then later in the day, I caught up with my expert Dr. Joe at the McGill Office for Science and Society, and lo and behold he was talking about the book “LIMEYS: The Conquest of SCURVY” by David J. Harvie. Now that is a coincidence, eh?

I’ve finished the book about Medgar and Myrlie and done further research to clarify my remembrance of that time. I’ve also been spending some time reading the journal I kept of the first year of my daughter’s life, looking for any food allergies I may have mentioned, to help her with her baby who just turned 7 months. I’ve been focusing, too, on my calendar puzzles which I find if I take enough time I can usually complete. My problem has been that I tend to rush through life and I wasn’t used to really studying a problem. This is good practice for the rest of my time here, even one day at a time as I now try to live it. I know, some of you may be thinking it’s a bit late to be getting the hang of it, but seriously, I don’t feel a day over 19 (albeit a rather creakier version).

So that’s it for today. Thank you this morning to Dan Rather who gave us a link to Dolly Parton singing her song “I Will Always Love You” and to David Pepper who references a poem by one of my favorite writers, Dylan Thomas. And did you see that Bill Bradley has joined Substack? So many great writers to keep up with and so many amazing people working to get out the vote and save this democratic republic. Note to self: Keep calm and carry on, Katharine.