It’s a typical Sunday and Mothers Day. I slept-in for a while even though Sweet Pea was trying to get me up so that I could let her out to chase the squirrels.
There is not much else on the agenda today. However, I did tend to the dish washer, the thirsty plants watered a little, since they can’t go out to start their spring/summer “vacation” until the weather is more cooperative. I also managed some light straightening around the kitchen. I don’t put much of that kind of thing on my Sunday agenda. I like for it to be a "recharging” day.
I “broke” with my self-set schedule for grocery shopping yesterday. I needed to pick up some meds so I decided to go in at the regular open hours. It wasn’t too crowded. There were at least half a dozen store clerks doing the shopping for the curb side orders. It’s interesting to see how many people seem to be using that way of shopping now. I think it got a slow start in the beginning but seems to be picking up.
It sounds like Columbus is slowly opening different shops and stores. I hope the “curve” stays steady or, better still, goes down more and more each day. Hopefully we can enjoy a nice Spring and Summer.
The word today is fortunate. Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate, Herodotus. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted, Aesop. It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire, Robert Louis Stevenson. I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions, Marcus Aurelius. I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed! Jane Austen. That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? Alexandre Dumas. Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault, Seneca the Younger. Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory, Ralph Waldo Emerson. To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature, Seneca the Younger. It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness, Epicurus. The unrighteous are never really fortunate. Euripides.
The article sounded refreshing about the great outdoors for this season and for a breather in the pandemic. The author of the article opened with one of Henry David Thoreau’s quotes: “By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man.” The author went on to say he finds himself, in the pandemic, in the reverse, closer to nature than ever. He lives surrounded by a garden, woods and the sounds of the nearby creek. He says more people will be able to experience some of what he can see daily. There is a new online site being formed by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, “Digital Discoveries” (odnr digital discovers), plans to collect nature information, ideas, activities and lessons for everyone with sections for kids, parents and teachers and put in digital format. There has been some delay getting to the site but should be fixed soon. Plans are to have printable activity books and guides to topics like nature crafts, animal behavior and other fun activities. There will be related links on the site. There will be some type of interaction on the site also. The article closes with “consider a trip, even if only digitally, into the great outdoors”.
I think we are going to order from York for Mothers Day.
Joy
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