So many things swirling in my head as the day wanes and there remains much to do. So this will be short today. There are still flowers blooming in the garden. And on our way to meet a friend for breakfast this morning I saw roses, sweet alyssum, and black-eyed Susans blooming as though it …
Tag: joy
A Little Rough
Hello friends. It’s been a rough week. When I woke up Wednesday morning I didn’t expect there to be any conclusive election results. I got up and showered and got dressed and then went into the kitchen for breakfast in complete and unconcerned bliss. James was cooking breakfast and already knew, was trying to figure …
Grief and Joy
Ah Friends, it's been an emotional sort of week. We are in moderate drought here at the moment. The garden is suffering in spite of James and I watering it; we can't water enough. New Cherry Tree has only ever made very tiny leaves and I don't know if these leaves are enough for them …
Choose Joy
Joy n. ME [Middle English] 1. Vivid pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; exultation; gladness, delight 2. A pleasurable, happy, or felicitous state or condition; esp. the bliss or blessedness of heaven.Shorter OED About 17 years ago, not long after James was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and I still went to his …
