From yesterday morning. The sunlight and shadow on the pew was so lovely.
Very, very, very cold here today and it looks like it will be that way throughout the week. As so often happens in really cold weather – at least here – the sun is shining brightly. We may not want to be outside, but we do have sunny skies.
I’m trying my best to stay away from the news, only checking in once a day. I need to let go for a while. I imagine we all feel that way. I need calm. A good and incredibly competent man is now at the helm and I trust him. Isn’t that refreshing? It’s been hard for me to read for any length of time, though I have been. But I want to return to big chunks of time spent reading. Today, as I sit here, the sun is bathing the kitchen with its warmth and Don is upstairs getting ready to record a song. A good Sunday.
We’ve officially named the former office/studio The Studio. That’s really what it is now. I work on my miniatures. Don records his songs. It’s our creative space. Don also records downstairs in the living room. His recording studio is nicely portable. We start each day checking in on who needs the studio that day and when. All good.
I’m still reading Cruel Acts by Jane Casey. Once I’ve finished, I’ll start Winter Solstice. We’re watching a great series on Netflix, Call My Agent. It’s from France so there are subtitles, but it’s wonderfully done. Rick and Doug recommended it to us.
Today? I’m not sure. Reading. Watering the houseplants. Washing the sheets. Dusting.
I hope everyone is feeling some peace this week. You deserve it.
Stay safe.
Happy Sunday.
hope you are feeling peace, too. :)
that view is peaceful and (as much as i love a rainy day … a lot) that play of sunshine and shadow is delighting my eyes. as is, among other things, the pull on that cupboard door. :)
glad that you and don have that studio space for some of your many creative endeavors. i like my set-up, too … i paint at my desk, sew next to it and write sitting in an old metal lawn chair (all in my living room) and knit/do cross-stitch in bed while watching tv. that is, i did before my back problem changed things … but that continues to slowly improve and i fully expect to get all those things back for more than ten minutes (how long i can currently sit) at a time.
cold here with pretty blue skies here, too. had maybe an inch of snow overnight, with up to ten inches more to come tomorrow starting around noon. i keep reminding myself that the first day of spring is less than two months away. :)
hope you have a good day, not spent completely on chores. and stay safe!
kathy in iowa
We definitely have to remember that Spring will come. Especially when you have 10 inches of snow coming!
Take care of yourself, Kathy.
Stay safe.
Your sunlight photo looks so peaceful. It’s challenging switching off isn’t it, I keep thinking I should check but I don’t need to, it’s going to take some time to get used to that. Have just finished Hamnet this morning, I’m still processing it, at present I don’t have the words to say how I feel about it. Not sure what to read next, it’s going to be difficult to find something that comes close. Enjoy your day.
I had the same problem when I finished it. It spoiled me for other books for quite a while.
Stay safe, Fiona.
Feeling that peace today. Sara is recovering from Covid well, so far no one else in her family got sick. The sun is shining and I think I’ll create some art today. Yes its a good day.
So happy to hear that Sara is recovering, Linda!
Wonderful news.
Stay safe.
Bonjour Claudia,
I believe that the french series you are talking about is called “10%” here in France. It has a lot of success with many guest french stars. I did not watch it myself but I know it is very popular here.
Have a good rest of sunday you an Don.
Big hugs et prend soin de toi et de Don.
Yes, I saw that on the credits. I like the French title better!
Thank you, Helene.
Stay safe!
Love the photo. I love your home. I will rent an apartment in Florida although I have an inlaw suite at my son’s home with a real elevator for all the floors. I just prefer living alone until I have to move in…I am funny that way…Glad that peace and hope have come to us…prayers
I don’t blame you, Brenda. I would want to live alone as long as possible. You’ll have the best of both worlds.
Stay safe.
glad you can ‘unplug’ from news–me? not so much–junkie, ha!! think OM will have no punishment for his crimes–no republican support for trial — Mitch still gets his way–postponement of trial until OM can prepare ‘his defense’ what could possibly be his DEFENSE?? he is GUILTY period. most Sen/Congressmen are idiots and must believe the whole country is as well — had hoped OM would receive some kind of punishment for his behavior — don’t think it is gonna happen. sure love the sunlight in your home — in short supply here — makes very dreary days. Stay safe and healthy.
I don’t know if we really have any idea what will happen. More damning information is coming out daily.
Stay safe, Linda!
I’m so late in getting to this beautiful post. so don’t know if you’ll see this.
but I absolutely LOVE your photo. the sunlight and the window… the pew… the plant
it’s ALL just glorious.
I was able to get my first shot this Monday morning at 7:45! and they automatically scheduled the second one for me on 2/15 at the same time. I feel very lucky.
like you I am finally relaxed and more hopeful about everything than I’ve been in a long long time!
here’s to a good week for us all! xo
So happy to hear you got your first vaccination, Tammy!
Stay safe.
The sun streaming inside your house must feel so comforting.
I’m trying very much for peace. It has been a bit elusive.
Then we learned Sunday that a very-prominent physician in our town died of Covid on Friday. He’d been really sick with it for a couple of weeks and he actually called in a TV-news reporter to interview him and his ICU physician to spell out in real words what was happening to him, however much it’s difficult to hear, in hopes that it will keep people from not looking out for themselves and others (my neighbor had another party yesterday, full of people in the backyard, cars pulling in from other households; it’s staggeringly irresponsible [then the temps dropped to the 40s and they all went indoors, in one small house, so just imagine the shared ‘air’]). I’m not going to repeat, from the doctor’s interview at bedside, the no-words-spared descriptions of the virus effects and the toll it takes on the human body to the end, just too graphic and upsetting (the male ICU physician was in tears), but if I was ever wary of Covid before, I’m even more terrified of it now. Speaking of peace, it is NOT a peaceful death.
The mantra/advisement/warning must be a continual reminder: We all need to fight off Covid fatigue and keep being very, very careful, always masking up and NOT gathering, continuing to physically distance ourselves from others; practice good hygiene like handwashing. The experts can’t say it enough times. Prevent suffering; prevent loss of life.
We were just saying the same thing. Don ran to the store this morning, thankfully, double-masked. As he went in the store, there was a guy talking to one of the workers, with his mask pulled entirely off his face. What the??? And people around here are almost always fully masked. Don was pissed off.
xo
Well, he had every right to be pissed off. These other people are endangering the rest of us until there can be a greater vaccination effort. You have no idea how hard it’s been for me to quell the urge to go scream at the neighbors on either side of my house for their constant gatherings, always multiple people coming in to their homes (it’s on a daily basis and since the beginning of the pandemic); the visitors aren’t part of their ‘pod’ and don’t live in the household. It’s right before our eyes; we’re too aware of the comings and goings because my husband and I rarely leave the house and are just always here, not ‘spying’ on them, but it simply can’t escape your awareness because it’s a crowded environment with closely-spaced homes and their cars fill up the street, sometimes even blocking our driveway. Anyway, not only would it do no good (deaf ears) to even politely, with concern, talk to any of them (about Covid risk), I don’t want to start a neighbor war. I’m sure we’d be hit with a MYOB response. You know, as I’ve previously said, I’ve had it the other way, where I have another militant couple just down the street who have verbally ‘attacked’ (more than once!) both my husband and me when we’ve been in our own yard with our masks on, because they are vehement anti-maskers and apparently feel that their way is the highway. I consider them really-scary people now and my husband and I go out of our way to avoid such hostile neighbors. Frankly, we just keep to ourselves now. If we’re out in the car, we make it quick once home, getting to the front door without much dallying. We spend very little time in our front yard; or, shall I say, we pick the right times, when we know a lot of those people are gone and at work or whatever they do. It’s a shame it has to be this way. But the divide is real.
xoxo
oh my word. a TRUE Physician. even dying he made a valiant effort to try to help people realize the facts.
thank you Vicki for sharing the sad story about him.
our first vaccine was given at one of the Embassy Suites huge carpeted meeting rooms.
it was quiet. and clean and well attended. rows of chairs perfectly spaced. no one had to stand and wait. the nurses and their carts came to each chair. there was room for her. and they had techs timing everything and which rows had waited the 15 minutes after each row’s shot and they were released. and then the next row. it was so orderly. I had been afraid it would be chaotic but it wasn’t. everyone was friendly and so efficient.
it made me super thankful. our state has NOT been one who has been all that cooperative!
even now I’m not sure the governor ever wears one. and somehow it’s still a political statement to many.
and to tell the truth I was dreading it. but I was wonderfully surprised!
it’s as if the REAL professionals just bided their time and performed how they KNOW they should! as soon as they could! and EVERYONE complied to the rules as they were asked.
I follow your posts each day Claudia. bless you and Don both. for so much really. for keeping the faith. and for staying beautifully creative for the rest of us. you’ve made me want to read Winter Solstice again! it’s one of my favorites of Pilcher’s. great virtual hugs to you! XO
This physician was an older man, a dedicated doctor. He was my former neighbor down the street, when I lived in another house. He had lost his wife to cancer, but he was still an actively-working and healthy widower/doctor with his adult children and grandchildren at his home most anytime we’ve driven by, in the past (before Covid), on weekends. I guess I was on ‘doctor row’ but the guy across the street from us (in the years we lived in that neighborhood) was also a doctor, and he was ‘best friends’ with this now-deceased physician; they’d come to town as young and fresh out of med school with new wives, ready to start families, when our town was thriving, many years ago. Anyway, true ‘fixtures’ in our town and well-regarded doctors. I feel really bad that he had to die in such a painful way; he didn’t deserve it. All he’d done for the whole of his life/career was heal and mend and cure other people. He never even got to enjoy a retirement. He got sick before he could get a vaccination. He’d tried. The last thing he said to his ICU physician was, “I love you.”
oh my goodness.
tears in my eyes. thank you for sharing him with us.
may he find rest and peace. xo