This blogspot has become a comfy old sofa for me, a place to remember stuff, review books and movies, report on fun times with people I love, and rant. It's been a random four-year scrapbook and it's been a sort of friend---though I sometimes think it's a bit presumptuous to think that even my closest friends are interested in the minutia of my days. Then I recall Mary Oliver's question:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
I'm returning to blogging after a two-week hiatus, and I hope this year, on the road to 70, will be both wild and precious.
After physical therapy this morning I came home to find a book in my mail slot I'd ordered for Elena, After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again.--by Dan Santat, a Caldecott Medal Winner.
My name is Humpty Dumpty. I'm famous for falling off a wall.
(You may have heard about it.)
But that's only half the story...
Because I decided to get back up.
And when I did, something amazing happened....
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