Today is another day

Some days need to end. Fortunately, yesterday did. I don’t know what went wrong. Or why. But, for some reason, everywhere I went and everything I touched hit a nerve.

I wonder…why does the same action provoke a different reaction on different days? Is it the weather? It’s been cloudy and rainy here, so maybe that’s it. Is it the influence of the people we share space with? If they are grumpy, does it rub off?

I tried. Really, I did.

There was a highlight – a woman I met at the gym recently mentioned yesterday morning that her family was alone for Yom Kippur. I don’t know her well. But late in the afternoon, I called her and invited her to join us. She declined. But she was happy to have been asked. And surprised. It felt good.

Oh, and another hightlight…. Max has shown extreme interest in jigsaw puzzles lately. I gave him a 200 piece puzzle the other day and he and his brothers finished it in no time flat. He asked me for another, please. So I pulled one out of the closet that I have been hoping to get to… A Grateful Dead Collage puzzle – 1000 pieces. Yikes, it’s hard! But we worked on it for several hours and made some real progress. It was fun working together. We got all the edges done and some of the inside. Plus, it was fun talking about the Dead with the kids.

Okay, so it wasn’t really such a bad day. I have to work on that perspective thing….