Day 108

April 18, 2022

Today is a special birthday day for me.  It was my Grandmother Overman's birthday and my whole life I've figured people born on this day are special.  Happy Birthday you all.

All day long I have been thinking of tender moments.  When I first went off to Marlboro College as a 21 year old who had relinquished her baby two years before I was in a lot of unidentified pain and still filled with the idea that I just needed to let go, forget about her, forget that I lost 3 people whom I loved in 9 months.  I was to go on with my life and shed the sadness and the shame and the hurt miraculously.

I was placed in the good hands of  Tom Toleno.  An example of a tender moment happened on my first birthday at Marlboro.  I had told a class or a group that because my birthday fell on the first day of fishing season my brother, Mike, would get up and go me trout for my birthday breakfast.  So when I went down to the Dining Hall that morning the guys in the kitchen had cooked me a trout that Tom had gotten me.  That was a tender moment, a sweet moment that let me know I was heard and cared about.

I have several of those moments in my life.  I'm blessed by them.

There were several types of ducks in the rookery today.  Anyone want to guess what the one on the right is.  She stouter and kind of cinnamon colored, but I don't think a cinnamon duck.

And these chickens that are free range and herded by 4 giant white Pyrenees who I really want to photograph.  It's so cool to see them all roaming around the green hillside which maybe covered in snow tomorrow.