Yes, life in Maine in May. So there really is not much difference between a snow day and a pandemic day. I am inside.
I did do Tai Chi practice. I worked on another small collage. I picked up my knitting, made a mistake and ripped out three rows and am starting over again.
I looked through some photo's and found a classic 1980's pic of Sasha and I, we kind of look like the Bobbsie Twins! I can't even imagine what I was thinking and that Sasha
I am going to post a picture tomorrow of my Mom with my brother and I in what I think is the only professional photograph of the three of us.
Meanwhile, it just keeps snowing. The wind just keeps blowing. And I am going to try to do some reading of the book from my newly joined UU - Houlton Book Club, the book is All Standing, by Kathryn MIles, it is the story of the Jeanie Johnston the Irish Famine Ship. I have not yet found any comfort about reading about another time of natural tragedy, discrimination and the human will. But I continue to read on.
It has been disconcerting, but my ability to sit and read has not been very good. Somehow when I read, I get unsettled. I love those days and moments especially in the summer where you can just lose yourself in a book. Either I am already too lost, or I haven't yet picked up the right book, but I have a large stack of books that I was hoping to have read and I have not done a very good job of it.
I have done a little binging on Netflix - Marcella a British detective series with a female protagonist has kept me occupied at times. I do return to the Chef's Table, there are just a few episodes I haven't watched, so I am catching up, and re-watching some of my favorites. I finished Frankie and Grace, so no more of those. Unbelievable was good and tragic. Unorthodox was also good and tragic. I wish I liked comedies, but I don't really. I did like Julie and Julia. There may be some Orange is the New Black that I haven't seen.
Tomorrow I will watch the last available episode of Outlander, I don't know how I got hooked on it, but I am (don't judge).
Having listed all of these, I think it is a good time to say that I am so glad to be reading The Atlantic Magazine, I have been going back and reading essays from the 1619 Project, prompted by Nikole Hannah-Jones winning a Pulitzer Prize. I appreciate that I have several friends that regularly send me great articles to read.
I seem to be able to get through an article easier than a chapter in a book. And with that acknowledgement I am going off to the kitchen make some popcorn and sit down and watch Hollywood.
A little Saturday night escape. A diversion from the snow. A a good way to pass the time on another weekend in the age of this pandemic.
Stay safe, Be Well.
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