Driving home I’m sad. It’s gorgeous out. And I’d like to feel better. I get tired of all the hate in the world, all the people who are unhappy and willing to splash it around at leisure. Today I got hit with some splatter, let’s just say. Someone hurting I suppose, who elected to be nasty.
My mind touches on happy memories form the last 24. A stripey kitty with white socks, running across the street. I’ve never lived with a stripey kitty with white socks (although I hosted one briefly, this summer). Maybe that can happen someday.
The other day, at breakfast – Nels exclaims happily, and points out the window. “Mom, come look! You will like it!”
I come look. It’s an inchworm, a little yellow guy about an inch and a half. He’s racing along the railing of our deck. Yes, I do like it. I step out to take a picture.
Nels has been bringing me inchworms because he knows they make me happy. A recent specimen was only about three millimeters long. They are always so busy and earnest and they move so quickly. We only examine them moments before my son takes the back, always back to where they came from.
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Yesterday my son comes alongside me as I am fooling with some noodles, straining them in the sink. Making a lunch.
A really deep cut!
Inch worm,
inch worm,
measuring the
marigolds.
I have to sing it every time I see one. It’s what my mum always does.