Hello Friends,
It has been more than two weeks since my last post. Right after that last post I left for a week in Connecticut. It was something I was really nervous about doing (you’re visiting your 89-year-old mother in the middle of a pandemic?! What are you thinking?!) but also something that I knew I needed to do, for many reasons that I won’t go into here.
Anyway, the week was a good one for everyone involved. I’m glad I went. I was nervous about posting about my trip on here (you visited your 89-year-old mother in the middle of a pandemic?! What were you thinking?!) which explains the second week I was away.
Connecticut was beautiful. It may sound ironic, given that I visited my 89-year-old mother in the middle of a pandemic, but it felt good to be in a state that takes the pandemic a heck of a lot more seriously than Ohio. You simply do not go into any public enclosed space without a mask. It is not allowed. People keep their distance. You don’t see groups gathered together inside or out. We did a lot of picnic lunches, off by ourselves in the woods or by the water. It was a quiet, gentle sort of week, full of love and simple pleasures.
I have more pictures to share in the coming days, but I wanted to share with you some of the signs that are currently ubiquitous in Connecticut – hearts and thanks for health care and other front line workers. You do see a few signs stuck in lawns around here, but nothing near the scale and permanence that I saw in Connecticut. It was lovely.
I will leave you now with a promise to be here more often in the coming days. I missed you.
Love,
Michelle xoxo