Gratitude

 It's been a lovely Saturday. I got a sweet note in the mail from someone I met via LJ (and we still follow each other here, to this day). The weather was lovely. My food pantry shift and shift at the Dems' table went easy breezy. Doris got home from work relatively early and we ate at a restaurant here in Oak Park that we'd never been to before. It was somewhere between good and excellent. Then we went to a bar across the street that had a rooftop bar. (We're not "bar people" but we were checking it out in advance of Pam and Sean's visit in August). 

PS - I've written about being very down because of all the suffering in the world. There's always been suffering in the world. I do believe that with Trump in office though, everything just feels worse. That's part of what is just making everything feel more acute.