March Showers Brought June Flowers in Everyday Ramblings

This was a couple of days ago a couple of blocks away. It is not like that now; it is bone chillingly damp and overcast out with rain due in a few hours.

I’ll be out in it as I have a dental appointment and need to go to the grocery afterwards but after that I think I am going to take a bath and crawl into bed.

Tomorrow I start my new work schedule in the office and I am not looking forward to it. I will adapt. I am just waiting for the feedback about how unfair it is that we get an office and can be together, the Saint and me. Nimrod says he will defend us against that kind of political maneuvering but oh me of little faith does not believe he will be able to.

In the meantime though I am thrilled that we can meet with our Technology Analyst in our own office together with our own computers without having to resort to a conference call or a conference room.

In and among all the other things I have been doing over the last few days I have listened to lectures on…

Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the first woman to be First Lady in the White House, she was a pretty amazing woman with a good sense of humor.

Oden and Thor. You know, the actual Norse Gods, not the Marvel Comics versions.

And by podcast…

The life of Merle Haggard. The singer who died recently

‘Alice and Oliver’ by Charles Bock. He grew up in a pawnshop. The book is about cancer and his wife’s death of it after being diagnosed when their much loved daughter was 5 months old.

How the Republican Party convention rules work.

How Cats Work from Stuff You Should Know

Oliver Haugh, Serial Killer and serious drug addict doctor from Stuff You Missed in History Class

Lots of Classical Music…

Other things that come to mind that I have been listening about or reading about, the terrible financial situation in Puerto Rico, the meaning and usefulness of grit in sustaining a meaningful life, what a meaningful life is made up of, as envisioned by Thomas Moore, growing up and cooking as a negro freeholder in America’s south and moving to New York to cook for famous folks, Toe Stand and various yoga chants, the Bhagavad Gita, the winner of the STEWART H. HOLBROOK LITERARY LEGACY AWARD at the Oregon Book Awards ceremony last night, a good friend to Mr. Finch during his illness and quite a character.

The pink blossoms on the trees outside my window are almost all on the ground now as the leaves push out to their full size…

Spring is just roaring through here this year. The roses are starting to bloom.