Went shopping today for building supplies: Sheetrock. Flooring. Purchased food for a guest. Apricots from Turkey. Medjol dates, mission figs, dark chocolate, hummus. Yum. Nice to anticipate fragrant olives, artisan bread w/garlic. Went to the summer reading program at the library, too. Won a 14" pizza from a contributing pizza place!
I am a developer, investing in my property as it slowly, methodically comes together. Great to say goodbye to the old cracked hazardous plaster walls that most likely have lead paint on them. They are full of blow in insulation now. The new "Cherry Island" flooring seems a good match to the mahogany wood trim and reveals and demising wall. I keep daydreaming about lime green paint on the wall and an 11' bookcase in the nook. Goodbye to being uninsulated; there is now a protective barrier of sheetrock on the walls and above the ceiling.
I am so very much enjoying the book The woman who fell from the sky by Jennifer Steil. I love that she bravely traveled to Yemen and took a job to do good work and manage a paper & help staff write with integrity and truth. I'm also struck by her comment to her staff that they do not deserve to be yelled at.
Yet my mom yelled at me all the time; I wonder what made her so angry and unhappy? It is a question I live with every day.
My friend spoke about her new baby; that she has felt the most love for her baby. She is tender and kind to her little one.
So healing for me to observe and get to hold the little person.
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