This morning

This morning, as I'm driving to a conference in Raleigh, I'm thinking about the lovely conversation I've just had with Mom, and the pitfalls of aging, and yet how well she's doing in spite of it all, and the tragedy of lives cut short, and how much I depend on Google, and when it tells me to turn left on some winding road, when all the lemmings are going straight, but slowly because the traffic is horrendous, and I wonder if I'd be crazy to turn left on the winding road, or crazy like a fox, but I'm already late, because 10 minutes from home I turned around to make sure I'd turned off the stove,

Thankful

A few of the things for which I am thankful:

My blaze organge "Elmer Fudd" cap with fuzzy ear flaps.

Camping with Kate.

The village that raised me.

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