When you stay too long in one place, you forget just how big the world is and how many different people inhabit it. Often when we are reminded of the vastness of the world, we are reminded of the vastness of our own selves.

One of the most memorable dinner parties I have ever been to was at an artist’s friend’s house and her handsome musician husband. She popped into a yoga class occasionally. She boldly held a dinner party for about eight people in her life that were in her periphery, I for sure wanted to be in her orbit.

Tough time to celebrate Independence Day. Women particularly are not feeling independent, nor are LGBTQ or any other minority. In a podcast I listened to this week with the actor Jeff Bridges, he mentions the concept of a Trimtab.

The hubs and I are rebuilding a stone wall that is in front of our house. It has fallen over several times over the course of us living in our house for almost 20 years. Various sections have different colored concrete holding the stones together.

When I was a kid and took baths regularly, I would lay my head back in the bathtub and just keep my nose and my mouth barely out of the water to breath. I would see how still I could become trying not to move a muscle.

January was a blur. Between the fallout from the holidays, the mid-west weather, the latest version of Covid, and an overwhelming desire to watch Netflix and just sleep - January 2022 was nothing to remember.