Sometimes, when everything is going to hell, it’s important to remember what good there is in your life. So, in more or less random order…
- Hamilton.
- The Avengers movies
- Fantasia (& Fantasia 2000)
- Disney+
- Art
- Amazon (don’t judge me)
- Facebook groups
- Intelligent friends
- Within that group, the alums of my college and law school
- That I was able to reconnect with a close friend from college after eight years
- Coursera and edx (and free online courses in general)
- Blogging
- The Cooking Channel
- Alton Brown
- That my kids are all grown up so I won’t have to start homeschooling (I know my limits)
- The New York Times Mini Crossword
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Google Art & Culture collections
- Wikimediacommons
- Good doctors
- Good medicine
- That I caught my tooth infection before it got too severe
- Medical and dental insurance
- That I have had the opportunity to travel so extensively
- That the Rocket Scientist and I had our trip to South America just weeks before the coronavirus hit.
- That the Rocket Scientist fixed the dryer with twelve dollars worth of parts thus saving us from having to have a hundred-dollar service call
- New skills: baking bread.
- People who take COVID-19 seriously.
- That my family insists on me staying put and not taking chances, given my risk factors.
- That live in an area where people have no problem wearing masks.
- Horse racing
- The color blue
- The roof above me
- The food in the pantry
- The fuzzies: Penwiper & Pandora
- The Not So Little Drummer Boy’s Sweet & Charming Girlfriend (Fiancee?)
- The Red-Headed Menace’s Really Smart Partner (Note: the SCG is also smart, and the RSP is also sweet)
- My family
- Love
- Life
Things are still terrible, but I think I feel a little better
The Wild Winds of Fortune 