Good Morning. I hope everyone is doing well. End of February, already! We are under a winter snow storm warning, which lingers well into the entire week, so my guess is March arrives like a lion.
Currently Reading: "I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet; Discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working" by Shauna Niequist' I cannot remember where or who made the recommendation for this book. In the prologue of pages 1-6, I was quite teary for most of it; it hit a nerve which continued on through the first two chapters, but then the stories seemed to be on repeat & I was quickly loosing interest. Then I got teary again about chapter 20 when a few more nerves got hit. I haven't finished the book yet, and so far my overall opinion is a yes for me, although it's a book not everyone would want or need to read. For me, right time. One of the lines that meant something to me was on page 83, "grief is somatic, that it locates itself in our bodies & therefore needs to be worked out of our arms, legs & chest with movement, especially walking". Having myself recently in the last few months experienced the grief of loss of two family members, my young niece in December & one of my brothers in January. Neither of these deaths had any kind of service or remembrance celebration, which I am now coming to realize are important markers of death & life, which in my opinion help those of us left to grieve, to transition from the emptiness of loss to renewing the movement of life. I guess I was clinging to a grief unheard but felt. Maybe Mother Nature's wintery expression this week won't be so bad so I can get out for a cleansing walk. Treadmill walking just doesn't have the same oomph to it.
The other book I'm reading is a happy mistake. I meant to request The Cloisters, by Katy Hays, but actually clicked on the library lists, The Cloister by James Carroll. The little s at the end makes all the difference. Both are novels. I am only 31 pages into The Cloister & curious about Father Michael Kavanagh's past & why someone at the commune rail would trigger him to go chasing after him. I've yet to meet the other main character of the story, Rachel Vedette, a Jewish woman having lived during the war, in France.
Currently Watching: more Brit Box, a few were just 1 episode & went searching for something else. We have been enjoying an older series, Murder in Suburbia
And I'll leave you with this latest word I discovered; Spuddles (17th century) to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
I certainly hope my week isn't going to require I use this descriptive word. Here's to no spuddling for any of us this week.
