What I want to remember about this week:
Late nights outside,
long afternoons on the patio, whittling and drawing,
stacks of library books,
weeds in the beds,
some time for friends,
painstaking, personal work,
a special visit with a woman in my congregation,
the importance of words,
the importance of family, gathered around my bed after a long day,
appreciating being able to wear 2 matching shoes again,
shopping for our first headboard, 20+ years into our marriage,
playing Tim and Sam’s homemade game on family night,
taking time to enjoy art books,
taking time to play the violin,
taking time to pray for people I have yet to meet,
enjoying Richard’s smoked chicken for dinner,
enjoying the boys’ laughter over Lord of the Rings and Star Wars parodies,
enjoying playing Meditation from Thais by Massenet,
enjoying Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin,
enjoying piano music in the house, played at all hours,
loving my friend’s poems, self-published and comforting,
listening, reassuring, enduring…
lots of fumbling.