Scattered thoughts from a busy week

• I can’t imagine living through an earthquake and a tsunami, and then spending several hours wondering if my family was alive.
• How in the world are the Japanese people going to clean up all the garbage created by the tsunami?
• It’s wonderful to have friends that understand without me having to explain everything.
• Skype is fun. We just got it set up at home and talked to Doug’s sister and her husband as our test drive.
• I’m not a huge cake fan, but I shared an enormous piece of chocolate cake from a restaurant with Kate and Eric that was served with fresh fruit and raspberry sauce. Of that, I am a fan.
• A friend of mine just gave birth to a beautiful ten pound baby boy. Fifteen years ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy who was 9 lbs 13 1/2 oz. I’m a little upset that she beat me.
• Everybody has troubles. Everybody.
• The other night I was making gumbo while my husband and our three teenagers played Monopoly on the dining room table. In that moment, all was right with the world.
• In the grocery store, I thanked a soldier for serving our country. I’m going to do that more often.
• I’m getting very gray.
• I don’t know what the future holds but I know who holds the future. That’s a little trite but I like it.
• Birds. I’m delighted to hear them singing now, but I know I will come to curse them some summer morning. I shouldn’t do that.
• I miss my parents.
• Barber’s Adagio for Strings. It makes me cry every time.
• I’d love to have a typewriter. (But not in place of a computer.)
• You don’t have to be old to be grown up.
• You can be old and not very grown up.
• I love citrus “flavored” lotion.
• “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18