sunday
Click to viewI was up a lot of the night last night. Got to bed around 11 and then up from 1 to 4. I made good use of my alone time. I had downloaded sheet music for the song "Trouble" by Cat Stevens yesterday. I love that song. But it printed up small and hard for me to see with my old eyes so I redrew it on bigger staff paper. And started playing it, haltingly, on the little electric keyboard with headphones so I wouldn't disturb Dave. That is my favorite part of playing piano - the beginning of learning a song. I'm not good but I really don't expect myself to be any good yet. It's nice to just catch a whiff of the song notes done properly.
So, on Saturday at the meeting we were discussing feeling your feelings. Sometimes you just need a good cry. This song is good for that. Life is not easy. Well, sometimes it can be. But a lot of the time it's not. There is a lot of loss in living. On a very good day I'm willing to feel the full range of feelings. Laugh a little, cry a little, be kind, smile sadly to the people who are having a bad day.
I went for a walk with Rainy down back earlier today. Spring is springing! All my old flower and plant friends are returning. Bloodroot (I know where you live and look for you to return), yellow trout lilies everywhere, purple dead nettle, violets on the lawn, the maple trees; red and sugar, dandelions.
Spring Beauty.
For Christmas Chloe got me a wine making kit. Not that I wanted one. I'd much rather buy a bottle of wine than have to do all the work of making it. But she was excited about it and said she wants to help me. I said I've always wanted to try dandelion wine. It's a LOT of work I guess. You need a lot of flowers to make a gallon of wine. So I need to call Chloe and see when she wants to meet up so we can collect dandelion flowers.