2018 Life Logs, Day 300—Nor’easter
Date: Saturday, October 27, 2018
Weather: Rain and Wind, Lots of Both; High 60, Low 52 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
It was a stormy day on Cape Cod where a nor’easter brought us lots of wind and rain. It was a day in which I didn’t venture outside the cottage, not even once. I did open the front door to check the temperature, but that was the extent of my outdoor explorations. I sat at the dining table working on my computer and watching the storm through the windows. Whether I looked west out of the dining room windows or south out of the living room window, all I saw was rain and leaves swirling in the wind. Once in a while there would be a gust of wind that bent the tree limbs, but for the most part it was just steady . . . rain and wind all day.
What I learned by sitting at the dining room table working on my computer all day is that I need to do this day after day for many, many days in order to get my photo files in order. But that isn’t going to happen, so I have to find a way to stop being so particular about the way I organize my photographs and shortcut the process. Today I was working on the presentation I will make in two weeks for the Wayland Sailing Association. I needed to access photos from my trip to the Bahamas on Windbird with Sam and Dawn in April of 2017 and photos from my sailing trip this past March from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico. The photos of neither of those trips has been named and filed properly, so it took a little hunting to find them. That was the red light reminder that I REALLY need to do something about this. The problem is that life gets in the way. I keep doing more things and taking more photos that need to be organized. So, I will just keep chip, chip, chipping away at this job until it is done.
If Mark were still alive we would have been celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary today. All day long I kept thinking back to that warm, beautiful fall day when we were married under a palm tree in south Florida. Then I would look out the window and was brought back into the here and now. The drastic difference in the weather in these two scenes made me chuckle more than once, but the memories left me feeling a bit sad. When it was time to eat dinner, I turned on the TV to see what was happening in the world and learned of the horrible shooting in the synagogue in Pittsburgh. That jolted me out of my sadness and into madness. My solution to gun violence is to take away the guns. But those in power don’t agree with me. Where do we go from here?
