#5 - Don't Like the Gloom

Hard to Distract

It's March 17th and I put on green to lift the gloomy feeling. I tried to let the silly holiday distract me, but the Covid news was always lurking, whether I was reading, playing piano, cleaning or sorting.

I put coffee in my Irish cup this morning.

​After lunch, I went on a walk and enjoyed the bluebonnets.

But seeing a few others out walking, I sensed that we all felt uncertain. No one knows what the rules are yet. 
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Later, I talked to my friend in Chicago. She talked about walking 2 miles to vote, to avoid public transportation. She talked about her city, with no St. Pat's parade and no green river. I told her that a week ago, our Houston Rodeo had been shut down 11 days early.

Embracing our Irish

But by evening, I let go of the worry for a while.

Don and I celebrated with green beverages and corned beef and cabbage. We blasted some Irish jig music and I got out my goofy dancing friend. 
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Happy St. Patrick's Day!