Moving through the 2020 holiday season and now facing a new year, I have wondered what fresh and helpful words I could share. Yesterday, as I was pondering this, I got a vivid reminder that encouragement does not always come in verbal form. The sun shone through the falling rain, and my daughter and I ran outside to look for a rainbow. We were not disappointed. Seeing the…
Somehow the traditional “Happy Thanksgiving” doesn’t quite seem to fit such an untraditional year, so “Happy 2020 Thanksgiving” is the greeting I’ve been using. It may feel as if holiday plans got thrown to the winds like the leaves in the featured photo. If your usual plans seem upside down and inside out, consider this your chance to throw the rule book out. Order Thai food. Eat dessert first.…
Photo 128585831 © Photodynamx | Dreamstime.com Have you been doing goofy things lately? Losing or forgetting things? Easily distracted? Yeah, me too. My daughter in L.A. calls it “Covid brain”. My brother and sister-in-law in New York use the same term, so, I guess it’s “a thing". … Wow, I can’t stop thinking about yesterday’s news. Or today’s news, which makes me question the veracity of yesterday’s news … We’re all living in…
Recently I took my mother to an appointment at a large Seattle hospital. We both had to go through the COVID-19 screening protocol. You know—Do you have a cough? A fever? Sore throat? Then the employee asked about fatigue. At that point I laughed and said, “Who isn’t tired these days?” Fortunately, the hospital worker had a sense of humor, too. This pandemic is starting to feel interminable.…