The past forty-eight hours has held so many different conversations in so many places that my head is spinning.
The long and winding road has taken us from the birth of a new grandchild (BCH), to a crowded grocery store filled with hurried, harried shoppers - all scurrying to get to their cars before the threatening-looking sky let loose, to a celebration of a ten-year ministry serving one congregation, to encounters with good friends, to the high school graduation open house for a young woman who has her life before her, to an hour-long chat with strangers who were surprisingly easy to visit with and, finally, back to home base where tasks were plentiful and abundant.
The weather has been just about as varied, with scorchingly hot temperatures accompanied by equally high humidity levels that made your air passages feel as if they had been attacked by cotton candy webs and now today's moderate temps with low humidity and brisk winds, giving the feeling of being lakeside at a cottage.
Conversations have run the gamut, too.
Discussions about diapers and bodily-waste elimination, to boating and the weather, to laundry methods and products, to a church mission trip and the intended recipients' desires to improve their surroundings, to post high school plans, to high school pranks and activities, to beer production, to home sales, to the sluggish economy's effect on the recreational-vehicle industry, to why a casserole took so long to cook in the oven, to why a married public official with children would take off for multiple days and not tell anyone where he was going, to how a fifty-year old was really old (ouch, that one hurt!). Whew!
My head is spinning, my heart is strangely warmed, my sinuses a bit clearer, my belly waaaaaaay to full, and my eyelids are becoming droopy.
It is a bit early. Maybe that remark about fifty-year olds wasn't that far off?
I told a friend today that for the past seventy-two hours I had played like a three-year old but last night I slept like a one-hundred-and-three-year old.
Hmmm, Rip Van Winkle......................
Ancora imparo
