Going Well
When things are going well, things are going well. Finished putting up the outside lights yesterday. Strung them on the gate with zip ties, ran them up the drive on little stakes, twelve inches from the edging, 24 inches apart. Well, that was the plan. I started eyeballing it when I realized I had about 200 feet of lights to run, and no one would be cross checking my work. Just speaking for myself, I think they look super. I still need to hang some icicle lights in the trees, but there’s rain this morning. So, they’ll wait.
I think I’ll dedicate this rainy day to putting up angels. My wife had quite the collection. Toward the end she stopped putting them out, then so did I. But last year I gathered them all together and it was showtime. It will be the same this year. There will be three separate areas full of angels. Oh, and Santa Claus’s. We have those, too. Not as many as angels, but a goodly collection. Up they’ll go as well. And it’s a nice day to do it.
Tomorrow I’ll drive into Houston for a big party welcoming the new kids to the family in the family’s new home. Pretty nice. New, new, new. And then it will be home for Thanksgiving, and a party with the children at my home with friends they’ve made here. And life will be singing it’s sweet song, and there will be a back beat that we won’t want to lose. There will be new hearts to love and new hearts to love us, and we will know that things are going well, as well they should.
John W. Wilson is the author of The Long Goodbye: A Caregiver's Tale