semi-random flotsam
Growing up – back in the days (gasp) before cell-phones and always-on communication, to be late to meet my parents was to send them into a spiral of worry. And that meant Trouble.
My sister and I learned not to be late. We at least learned not to be late without first calling to say so.
An expected hour late is less painful for the person waiting than 2 minutes of dear Lord what’s happening where are they??? Continue reading “I still arrive late for church”
Beyond my fence, is a little strip of land that’s technically public property – there’s a sidewalk and guardrail and whatnot out there.
It’s not mine. Or if it is, being outside the fence, it’s not top of mind. I don’t see it, unless I want to. Continue reading “Tending to the unseen (outside and in)”
So I am catching up on my podcasts.
And I’m part way through this one from Radiolab: The Cataclysm Sentence and having to pause because it struck me…
Cataclysm sentences Continue reading “Another listen”
While this post about S’ accident has the most hits this year and the most hits by far in a single week (back in February, driven almost entirely by traffic from her Facebook page), Continue reading “Revisiting the hits”
Written before the stay at home order here. I don’t know if that changes much of what I said, other than that it’s all just a bit more exhausting now that it’s not a choice.
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How quickly things change, from the days (just a few weeks ago) when I’d be angry when Amazon over-promised and (literally) under-delivered. If their site would say something is in stock and available for delivery tomorrow! and then multiple days later it was still “delayed.”
Then, I just felt lied to.
Don’t lie to us. The truth is always better than false hope.
That principle still stands, by the way. Hopeful but realistic expectations are more sustaining than happy falsehood.
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These days, I’m just so grateful if something is in stock, or even has an “expected available” date. Even if it’s delayed – Continue reading “Shifting perspective”
… when so much of life is disrupted, as we do what we can to protect ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors and elders from the Covid-19 outbreak… Continue reading “And in these days…”
I don’t get to come up to NJ as often as I’d like.
No. Wait.
I don’t get to see my friends up in NJ as often as I’d like. Continue reading “Visitations”
So it’s been a few days since S had her fall. She’s in two casts, and her face is scabbed over where she got rug burn during the fall. So is her knee. And her mouth got pretty mashed up when she landed, so it hurts to chew. Continue reading “Step by step … blessed”
So about the time this post was going live — reminding myself that regardless of the nightly news or any other circumstance, God is always and always good — I found myself en route to a trauma center in Baltimore.
My friend and travel buddy S came down Tuesday night. It was just to be a quick visit — dinner together, then she’d leave for her Dad’s in the morning on Wednesday, while I went about my work day as usual.
Alas, not to be “as usual” in any way. Continue reading “Unforeseen medical drama”
… that we live in a beautiful world Continue reading “Because it’s good to remember”
