2020 Life Logs, Day 2: Day Two of 2020
Date: Thursday, January 2, 2020
Weather: Mixed Sun and Clouds, Still Breezy; High 42, Low 34 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Normally, I just accept that it is a new year. But I think the fact that the political implications of 2020 have been looming over us for so long, I am having trouble believing it is actually here. But it is here and day two of 2020 for me was just a continuation of the first day of the year . . . more slow baking of granola, more walks with Shadow, more working on the vintage Christmas card puzzle, and more reading. I certainly feel better than I did last week, but I am still not in a healthy place. In fact, today I feel like I might have slipped backwards a bit. But I keep hoping that tomorrow will be the day that whatever it is I have just magically goes away.
On New Year’s Eve, I sent a Jacquie Lawson e-card to a few people. One card went to Phil and Margaret Hunt, Jo’s parents who live in Haslemere, County Suffolk, England. I received my first Jacquie Lawson card from sailing friends from England and learned that this online email card business is located in England. What I didn’t know is that it is located just 6 miles down the road from where Jo’s parents live. Phil wrote back to me yesterday saying, “I see that your message was via a Jacquie Lawson card. Margaret has received these before for Christmas and birthdays and they are very popular over here. I had never received one myself before. I had always imagined that they were American but on looking closer (ie through the usual About Us on Contact us links) I see that it is a very English company and actually operates from a village only six miles from where we live!! If you look at the website you will see that Jacquie Lawson herself still runs the company from the village of Lurgashall (Jo had a school friend there) but now with assistance from people up to 150 or so miles away. On the signpost in one of the photos you can see Haslemere 6 (ie six miles away). A small world indeed.” And I am grateful for technology that allows us to feel like we are not so far apart.
