Elijah laughing with Grandma – pure joy
A good laugh is medicine for the soul. Marilyn Armstrong’s SERENDIPITY post “RAPIDLY. BLINKING.” brought Norman Cousins to mind the day of the shutdown.
I was standing next to the bed. Blinking. Rapidly. Garry looked at me. I must have appeared to be in pain or something because he said: “Are you okay?”
He can’t blink.
“Yes,” I said, blinking and frowning. “I was putting the gunk on my rash? So after that, I washed my hands. I must not have washed them enough, because I think I touched my eyes and now my eyes are burning. I suppose I got some of the gunk in my eyes.”
By then, I was trying to rub my eyes with the back of my wrists since apparently my fingers were not eye-worthy.
Garry started to laugh. Then I started to laugh. We both kept laughing.
“One thing always leads to another,” I cackled.
He went back to watching the movie. I found the eye drops. Everything is hilarious. Of course, I suppose it could also be tragic and dramatic.
It’s…
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A matter of perspective…. Politics this years seems to have a LOT of that! If we can figure out what it is.. Ugh
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