Monday, May 18, 2015

The Year of Mortality







 It has been a hard year so far. Not bad, just hard. And filled with lots of changes. I have been, rather morbidly, calling it the Year of Mortality.

More funerals and emergency room visits, hospital waiting rooms and doctors appointments then we usually have in a year, all squeezed into a few months.

There seems to be a shadow of melancholy over our world, even though in some ways there is more happiness and contentment in my family - everything seems to be falling into place.

And life is actually quite peaceful right now.

I'm remembering that a few simple happinesses make any day beautiful.

I am carrying a drop spindle in my purse again, finding new old folksongs and singing all day long. I am reading because I enjoy it, and walking barefoot in the garden to count the monarch caterpillars and bring the turtles strawberry tops.

It's almost as if all the bad has shocked us into realizing all the good.

And right now?
Life's good.