Monday, September 28

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

My sweetie and our friends continuing to make progress on the addition. I'm sitting this out, for obvious reasons, but I guess I'm happy that someone is doing it. I hope it's all as safe as possible.

Sunshine.

I went to check on River, and he's settling in well. I chatted to the owner for a while about this and that, and it was really nice. I got to meet her big, beautiful, love-floof of a doggie.

I spent a lot of time thinking about how impossible it is to avoid all trauma and pain, and all accidents, and the never-ending internal battle of risk vs. missing out on life and opportunity. That many serious accidents also come of slipping on ice, in the bath tub, on a kid's toy, walking under the wrong tree or window, going for a walk, and on and on. It's sobering, and scary. We can be careful, but safety is still a bit of an illusion. Not that we shouldn't do our absolute best to be safe, and cautious, and educated.

I consider myself to be a careful person, but I also still cut my thumb and ruined a tendon a few years ago on a cat food can lid. I still tore a ligament in a finger because I pulled up a narrow-legged pair of jeans the wrong way and had to wear a finger brace for a month. None of this makes me less afraid.

We dug some more potatoes.

Then we came in and watched "Deadpool" again. It's an oddly charming movie, for all it's violence and gore.