- I cleaned my office on Saturday. I dusted and vacuumed. I organized the stuff on the desk and in the drawers. I took out a whole bag of trash, two boxes of old magazines to be disposed of in various ways, and a bag of books for donation. That’s progress.
- The Pandemic is flaring up again here in the U.S. Delta is now the dominant variant, and who knows what other variants might arise as it spreads. On the bright side, if we pay attention to the names of the variants, we could all finally learn the Greek alphabet. Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, . . . . I think we’re up to Lambda now.
- Yeah, that wasn’t much of a bright side. I’m grasping at straws, sad and scared that the numbers are going back up, angry at the people who refuse to get vaccinated.
- I have decided that all plants and plant parts that I bring inside will be referred to as “botanical samples,” because that sounds way cooler than it actually is.
- The sweet pepperbush is blooming. It smells so good. This time of year may be unpleasantly hot and incessantly mosquito-ridden, but the blooming of the sweet pepperbush makes it one of my favorite times of year.
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