And here we are in May!
/April flew by, I’m not exactly sure how, but then again a lot has been happening despite social-distancing, work slow-downs, and the general uneasiness that I feel when planning to go grocery shopping. There are so many “new normals” these days I can barely keep up. My brain spends a lot of time hopscotching around… finding my mask before running errands, wondering if any work came in while I had the computer off, what box did I pack that book I wanted to read in, when can I put plants in the ground, do we have any cake?
Cake has taken up some sort of special space in my brain that I didn’t know I had. I obsess about having cake. Buying cake. Enjoying cake that a friend made for me. Looking at photos of cake. It’s like some sort of Safe Space in my head that I can go to whenever I can’t make sense of the world.
And now it’s May. I have a new office and living space. Work is picking back up. I have plans for gardening. I finally have picked up my pen and paints and am trying to let the creativity and emotions flow free. Anxiety about the unknown future we all face still pricks away at me and makes me crazy at times, and we lost a dear dog companion which breaks my heart still a few minutes each day, so not everything is peaches and cream, but it’s Life, and to be honest, I am appreciating every joyful up and every depressed down.
I hope you are all, at the very, least Getting By. Sometimes that’s good enough, at least for a little while.
