Five pleasant things in gloomy times
What rotten times we live in. The natural world is still beautiful, but the political/social world seems to be unravelling everywhere.
Well... is it time to try to scrape up five things in the world that I'm happy about?
1. The displays of fresh fruit and vegetables at the market - so lovely!
2. Saturday's cake-making session, which has boosted my language skills as well as resulting in two loaves of banana bread, one each.
3. Language itself, and the fun of finding links from one language to another.
4. Vanuatu, which has been really throwing itself into the work of extricating their land/region from environmental disaster.
5. (Long pause, while I tried to think of one more thing. Then a dear friend sent me this:
https://www.adaptnetwork.com/nature/penguin-swims-5000-miles-reunion-man-saved-life/
So that can be the fifth.)
Well... is it time to try to scrape up five things in the world that I'm happy about?
1. The displays of fresh fruit and vegetables at the market - so lovely!
2. Saturday's cake-making session, which has boosted my language skills as well as resulting in two loaves of banana bread, one each.
3. Language itself, and the fun of finding links from one language to another.
4. Vanuatu, which has been really throwing itself into the work of extricating their land/region from environmental disaster.
5. (Long pause, while I tried to think of one more thing. Then a dear friend sent me this:
https://www.adaptnetwork.com/nature/penguin-swims-5000-miles-reunion-man-saved-life/
So that can be the fifth.)