Good afternoon friends! Trying to finally carry through on a dim resolutiion I’ve had for a while to write earlier in the day again, since I have another date this evening. Borne along on a giddy, dreamy undercurrent of excitement. Through being able to relate and express myself with someone new after so long, I feel a rare euphoric confidence despite all kinds of uncertainty around the future.
Milder and less bright, made fresher by a gentle dry wind. Round buds are swelling among the rainbow-edged leaves of the rose-of-sharon bushes and feverish, frilly pink rhododendrons are in bloom. Furtive little white globs of cocooning foam are appearing in the forks of stems. Shaggy, gangling lemon yellow hawkweed shines on unattended lawns. Barbed Vauban ramparts of thistle thrust upward through meadow grass.
May we grow in confidence in our ability to endure feelings of rejection and criticism today, and to learn and grow and profit from them!
