Today was supposed to be a less-busy day for the two of us. It sort of didn't turn out that way.
At ten o'clock we made a point of having a coffee/tea break. We shared a butter tart. We started the conversation with something like, "don't you think sometimes things are poopy?". I looked up. What an interesting question. We then talked about life and what it meant to have ups and downs.
We went deep.
And it made me think about life as having ups and downs, and how for some it seemed the ups were bigger than the downs. I thought about masks and how some people use them to hide stuff. And some people don't wear masks at all but are just who they are.
We talked about thinking and being pensive and introspective and whether that made us more aware of... well, who we were and what life was about. Or at least as much as one could figure. And I said I wondered if maybe it would be nice not to be a thinker, but just let life be. I didn't like the idea of not thinking, so dropped that.
It was a good talk.
During lunch I heard the sound of the neighbor mowing his lawn. I checked the weather on the internet (because I find it quite reliable, if you get my drift), and it said 40% chance of snow and rain tomorrow. So I went out after lunch and cut my lawn too. I couldn't do that before our new normal. Good friends of ours said that's kinda like being retired... just doing what you need to when you want to.
I like it.
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