Porch sitting, guitar playing; all-in-all, a lovely day yesterday.
Today, there are chores to be done and errands to be run.
It’s going to reach 78 degrees today. Rain tomorrow. Before you know it – I give it about 5 or 6 days – we’ll be putting those window air conditioning units back in place for the summer.
I’m currently reading A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. It’s a book I should have read long ago. I found a lovely little Penguin Classics copy last fall at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. What a powerful essay on women!
Today should bring to my mailbox a new copy of The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. That will be my next read. Or reread. As it’s been 30 years or more since I read it the first time, I suspect it will seem like a ‘new’ read. Don has been watching old episodes of Roy Rogers on YouTube. He met Roy and Dale once in a diner in Los Angeles. They were gracious and kind and gave him their autographs. (He lost them at some point.) He’s having such fun watching them again. Anyway, he mentioned Zane Grey the other day and wanting to read him, so I snuck in copy of two of his novels as a surprise for him.
I learned last night that a longtime friend of mine, someone I’ve known as long as I can remember, died last week. We were friends through the church we attended. I was very close to her family, her brother was my age. I was a camp counselor at a Lutheran camp when I was in college and while I was there I met a wonderful guy named Bob who kept me in stitches much of the time. We kept up our friendship and several years later, Bob was again working at the camp for the summer – this time as a lifeguard. While he was there he met Sue, my friend from church, who was working there as a counselor. They fell in love. Two friends from different parts of my life met and got married. I was at their wedding. They raised two children together and lived in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. She had cancer. They would have been married for 36 years this year. Heartbreaking. I’m very saddened by this news. Sue followed me on Instagram, so we were able to keep track of each other’s lives. She will be missed. Sue and Bob are two of the finest human beings it has ever been my privilege to know. Rest in peace, Susan.
Please keep Kathy from Iowa in your thoughts and prayers as she has been ill the last few days and tested positive for COVID-19. As you know, she is a truly wonderful person who responds to everyone’s comments with love and compassion. She had to keep working through this lockdown as she is a social worker. Let’s surround her in prayer and healing energy. You can read her comments about her diagnosis on yesterday’s post.
Stay safe.
Happy Friday.
