Good-bye, 2021.
Good Riddance maybe…
I’m not so sure.
Much was hard ’tis true.
Uncertainty, sadness, anxiety
Too much bad news…
COVID rages.
Our city makes national news once again.
A house exploded.
People died.
Children wonder “How does a house explode?” with fear in their eyes.
We all wonder; we make assumptions.
Another school shooting…
This time in our state, one county over.
Too much death and loss.
Cancer and COVID and other awful things.
Classmates, cousins, co-workers from days gone by...
Our dear neighbor...
My sweet sister-in-love...
Gone too soon.
...
Was there anything good?
Gotta’ watch for something good…
Small things?
Momentous things?
PorchFest and GOODSTOCK return to our hood. Those are good things. Fun things.
Claressa Shields (World Champion boxer, Olympic Gold Medalist, GWOAT) is the Grand Marshall of the Juneteenth parade. I walk down to the corner to see her… then talk to her in the Walmart check-out line a few days later. That’s fun and good.
Zoom meetings with daughters and other friends. Maybe a small thing, but definitely in the good category.
Celebrate 50 years married to my amazing man.
Golden.
That’s a good thing.
It’s big.
Momentous even.
So very grateful.
Camping trips with the kids and the grandkids. Great fun to be together after so much isolation!
I published my book!
Seems like a good thing.
A huge project.
Complicated.
Anxiety-inducing.
An emotional roller-coaster.
It was also a gift...
…to myself.
A fun focus during a difficult year.
To revisit that story.
Those years.
Those memories.
To lament the hard times.
To celebrate that we survived.
Thrived.
To bask in the beautiful moments.
To celebrate the fun and the transformation.
...
Maybe it’s not unusual for the hard stuff to be mingled with the good times.
Difficulty and disappointment and drudgery blended together with fun and fulfillment and happiness.
All the ingredients mixed and simmered.
The bitter and the sweet.
Why would we expect one without the other?
We take the good and the not-so-great.
All the parts…
Of a decade.
A year.
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