Saturday, November 28

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Continued decent weather.

A walk around the horse pasture with my sweetie and Roxy before he had to leave for work.

I went to see River, and that was nice. He was relaxed and we worked on the ideas from lessons: giving to pressure, leading correctly, stretching, and then some riding.

It was nice to talk briefly with the barn owner, R. She was working with the pony that is trained to drive, seeing if he was still okay having the sleigh bells on the harness. They are a lovely, heavy set of brass bells. She says that some of the people at the barn are interested in skjoring, which is to ski behind a horse that is in harness, and is hitched to you. That would be fun!

I came home and had a quiet evening, I started another book, "Everything is Illuminated".

It's so weird, how my life has become so....quiet. I don't do much. I go outside a bit, take care of the animals, maybe go see River, then just sit at home all night. Sometimes I paint, sometimes I read, sometimes I watch a movie. I'm comfortable and there's nothing wrong with it, but I do feel like life is kind of just slipping by. I don't see anyone, I rarely go anywhere, and there's very little motivation to do anything. There's a quiet, underlying stress from Covid, wondering when we can go back to living. Another year? I haven't had pottery class for over a year. I haven't gone to a movie theater in over a year. I haven't sat down with friends to play cards in over a year. So many people have put all kinds of plans on hold. This feels like a time of hibernation. I wonder what will be left of all the small businesses when we come out. I wonder if we'll ever feel okay with gatherings. How long it will take for the economy to recover. If Covid, or something like it, will just keep popping up and we'll have to deal with it again and again. How we'll deal with the people who refuse to get vaccines or wear a mask.