Archive for the ‘May’ Category
May 31, 2021
A cold and low-key Memorial Day. But once again the flowers add some much-needed cheer on my rainy walk.
May 30, 2021
Cold and rainy for the traditional start-of-summer weekend. Last weekend was 90 and sunny; this weekend the high is 50, and it rains incessantly, Ah, New England– defying weather expectations once again.
May 27, 2021
Back to composing again. It’s a delight to find melodies, harmonies lurking around in my brain and lasso them onto paper. When life was full of events, pre-pandemic, I used to hum them once and throw them back. But once my schedule became a void, writing music edged its way up to become one of the things I look forward to. Funny how life throws you a life-preserver during a tsunami.
week 657 ~ the poetry of loss
the poetry of loss
watching a life unspool
mere wishing cannot gloss
the poetry of loss
the angst you try to toss
the dread you never fool
the poetry of loss
watching a life unspool
May 26, 2021
My iris are back! Thinned, weeded, they have recovered to add their color contrast to my front lawn.
May 25, 2021
A 2-birthday party day! Afternoon lunch w/ friends for E’s and evening cook-out w/ P’s boys for the youngest’s. This social binge is surprising, delightful, and exhausting. Where have my social skills gone? Not needed for over a year. Things to relearn.
May 23, 2021
And they arrive one by one, those faces and voices, and their music that I have missed so. Vaccinated all, we sit once again around my dining-room table and look at each other in sudden amazement, as if we have just awakened from a 15-month hibernation. We play our music, not perfectly but gaining in strength as we go along. Fingers remembering where to go, or laughing when they don’t. Afterwards we eat a glorious potluck lunch and bask in sunny backyard conversation. A door opens and we hold hands and rush happily through.
Celebrating a Year 