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It’s Very High and Scary But I’m Used to It
I’ve gotten used to a ridiculous number of things.
- Never dressing up
- Steering clear of everyone I see
- Not having my kids over for dinner
- Having longer hair than I’ve had for fifteen years
- Detesting middle aged white men who want to tell me what’s what on social media
- Being amazed at how Wisconsin Democrats minority status in the Legislature has made them a non-factor in managing the pandemic
- Wondering why our governor is so extraordinarily timid
- Chewing the end of the same pen from Planet Fitness
- Talking to my 14-year granddaughter while she is wearing a hoodie and a giant white mask covering what I remember of her face
- Riding shotgun
- Drinking too much rum
- Reading Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen for the past decade or so
- Crapping out on zoom meetings, training sessions, and whatnots because it’s too much effort to ‘arrange my face’ as Thomas Cromwell would advise
- Never going shopping
- Worrying
- Being incredulous that public health officials aren’t in charge during a pandemic
- Disaster planning
- Creatures eating my lettuce
- Spending life on various porches
- Eating the cheap pickles left over from meal prep days
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Photo credit: Alex Azabache
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Much to my surprise, delight and other things I have gotten used to living with the same man for 32 years! I love the challenge of a list of things we have become used to.
Oops sorry.. please omit my last comment. I was referring to a different photo that I viewed shortly before yours..also a wonderful shot.
Wow.. that photo is gorgeous but gives me instant vertigo. Is it a photo? Or a painting?
It’s a photo published on Unsplash.
I wonder if the image of the person in the swing was superimposed or a reflection of something nearby? Such an intriguing photo. It should really be used as a prompt.
You think life will ever “feel” normal again? Do we remember what normal feels like? Was normal really normal? I guess I can stop complaining we don’t have enough shopping and too few restaurants. We have even less shopping (didn’t think it was possible) and no restaurants except McDonald’s.