Good Thing Friday (84)
September 25, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,816.35; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. I’m grateful to have already purchased the obligatory nibling holiday gifts. They should be ready for delivery well ahead of any holiday rush / election-related USPS breakdown. I want all our holiday stuff done before Halloween. In fact, I need all holiday things OFF MY LIST before a busy and bizarre holiday season.
2. I’m also very grateful we won’t be traveling for the holidays this year.
Challenges this week: I’m not sure how much more loss I can take. May RBG’s memory be a blessing, may we do all the work to honor her memory and her body of work fighting for us.
3. We had a masked and distanced dinner and a movie (doors and windows open for air) with a couple of very local friends, and it was lovely. I even played hairdresser and cut our friend’s hair (masked, outside). I was whipped by the time they left but it was nice to have some fun. We always stay isolated for at least two weeks after any get together. It’s been four weeks, in this case, but we are generally isolated anyway. Our county’s infection rate remains high. Even if things now just feel surreal, we are still mindful that there are too many people who don’t take this illness seriously and we can’t trust our fellow citizens to take sufficient care to limit the spread. Even if the virus weren’t fatal to us, we simply can’t risk the impact of a slow recovery or a long tail, or worse yet, chronic lingering symptoms. We have plenty of chronic issues in this household without signing up for more.
4. A king sized bed with a headboard is a glorious luxury.
