Sky full of song

Temperature: a drizzly 15/59 degrees

Eating: in a minute.

Drinking: It’s time to switch from red to rosé now that summer is just around the corner.

Watching: the days getting longer and the nights shorter. 😊

Listening: to birds migratory and local from dawn till dusk. 🥰

Reading: Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West by Catherine Belton, and When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn.

Writing: It’s a birthday bonanza right around this time, so cards, actual tangible colorful cards, handwritten, to be sent all over the place.

Thinking: about doing a döstädning inspired by Margareta Magnusson, I mean there are things in this house that have overstayed their welcome, for sure, and things my family would puzzle over in the event of my sudden departure, or, as they say in plain English, death, cocksure.

Feeling: re: above, we should probably keep the adult toys in one box and put some sort of warning label on it. I know, it’s life, so what? I know, but have you stumbled upon your parent’s/parents’ or comparable adult’s/adults’ sex toys? Yeah, you don’t want to know. You may well know, but you don’t want to know.

Diggi-loo diggi-ley

Temperature: Another cool May Day on the horizon, but with restrictions still in place there’s no chance of a friends & family picnic so... Oh, well.

Eating: Churros de doce de leite with…

Drinking: …May Day mead my husband made. Gostoso!

Watching: Shadow and Bone. Not quite as enamored with it as I thought I would be. Missing the movies, as in the big screen experience.

Listening: It was comforting to hear that not everything has changed; Eurovision still sounds like Eurovision! I listened to the recap without looking at the videos, and I think I spotted Lady Gaga, Ellie Goulding, Elton John, Sia, and something dating back to 1984. Go see if you agree!

Reading: Stuart Turton back-to-back. Yes, I’m probably the only person in the book-reading world who hasn’t read The Seven Deaths, but we’ve gone through this already; when you read in more than one language, well, so many books and only one lifetime is your conundrum. I heard it’s being adapted for television. Can’t wait to see how they’ll pull that off!

Thinking: Is it my turn to get the vaccine yet, please?! No, they’re still doing the 50+ age bracket. Us forty-somethings will just have to wait our turn.

Feeling: Haven’t been this excited about getting a vaccine since… I’ve never been this excited about getting a vaccine.

Love your Mother 🌱

The Angel of Music sings songs in my head

Temperature: a cool but sunny 6/43 degrees

Eating: It’s Christmas all over again, isn’t it, Easter, foodwise. But good home-cooked meals and the occasional drink aren’t restricted or prohibited like so many other things are right now, so enjoy! If that’s the sort of thing you do enjoy. And it doesn’t have to be anything fancy or costly, just something that puts a smile of contentment on your face.

Drinking: I’m thinking red wine from Portugal would go well with...a whole bunch of savory treats.

Watching: musicals of late. Imagine the cacophony I now suffer every second I’m not focused on something else. It’s like a radio station, your mind, isn’t it? If it’s not filled with talk there’s music.

Listening: see above.

Reading: The German House by Annette Hess. (Available in several languages, possibly yours!)

Thinking: Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate. (Carl Jung)

Feeling: someone nudging my chin. Again, a bit harder now. I open my eyes but there’s no one there.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams

Nature arms each person with some faculty which enables them to do easily some feat impossible to any other. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Joyful International Day of Happiness, dearest denizens. I hope you find your bliss. 💙