Saturday, December 31, 2022

After several days of no naps, Friday I take two naps.  Maybe my desire for food picks up and after eating, I am sleepy. And the cold and rain.  I huddle in my warm bed and listen to the outside world, and drift off. In the late afternoon I walk outside to the mailbox. The damp world is alive. I am now in the third week of surgery healing.

In the evening we gather to eat pasta and salad, and watch the new movie WHITE NOISE on netflix.  I read the book decades ago. The movie story is well done and disturbing, just as I remember. By the end, some are asleep and the teenagers have gone back to their room. The former teenager and I watched it all.

This morning I hear the wind and the open screen door hit the house.  I know I should get up and do something but I don’t.  I just listen.

Through the blurry wet window, I do see some birds move in the waving bottle brush limbs. They eat even in the storm.