it's the little things
Yesterday, as I was leaving the house to go to work (this week has been an awful slog, weighed down by memories and emotional malaise*), two cardinals swooped down and past my car, checking out the trees in the front yard for a nest.
It was wistful and reassuring - cardinals were my mother and grandmother's favorite birds, and I always have a vague spirit-animal like comfort in thinking that those two, who were so important in my life, are with me still in a way.
*panisdead sent me a lovely 'thinking of you' which serendiptiously arrived on Monday; otherwise this week might have been spent huddled in bed. i have the best friends.
It was wistful and reassuring - cardinals were my mother and grandmother's favorite birds, and I always have a vague spirit-animal like comfort in thinking that those two, who were so important in my life, are with me still in a way.
*panisdead sent me a lovely 'thinking of you' which serendiptiously arrived on Monday; otherwise this week might have been spent huddled in bed. i have the best friends.