From Santa Clara Coutnty, CA 6 months into the pandemic and then!!!
Himself wakes me up this morning
Himself: It’s brownish orange outside.
Me: What
Himself: I’ m not sure
I’m really teetering on the edge over what is happening all around and close to me. All those people whose lives are just being upended. I offer up my last positive energy to help sustain them. I offer up this song because, I’m originally from New Orleans so, ya just gotta keep your spirits high!
Ellespeth
This Is What You Get When…
1. You can’t breathe because of smoke from the wildfires and
2. You’re housebound 5 months because of the pandemic and
2. Your brothers are looking Hurricane Laura in the eye and
3. You have a president who doesn’t believe in climate change or medical experts and
4. You text your sister, in Mississippi, asking what’s up with your brothers and
5. She replies:
6. So you assume all is well.
Ellespeth ♥
At What Expense Victorious
Sometimes
opposites are true
like when you say
you don’t think you can take anymore
and then
Surprise!
you do
in spades.
Ellespeth
Santa Clara County, CA (day 114 of mostly stay at home)
The Pineapple Dilemma
That
mysterious masked stranger
six feet ahead of me
in the grocery check out line
has those blue puppy dog eyes
some women
like me
could fall for
and
I’d start a conversation with him
except for the pineapple
flown in from Hawaii
prominently displayed in his basket.
Ordinarily
the perfect time
for a discussion on carbon footprints.
Luckily
his girlfriend appears
saving me from yet another lock-down decision.
Ellespeth
We do not need a president ripping open already raw healing wounds and leading us to one side or the other. Well I don’t know about you but I sure as hell don’t need it.
Right now
I just want a Sugar Daddy
to tell me
there, there Baby
everything’s gonna be alright
and I wanna be lost
in some space and time
where I still believed
that could ever be true.
Ellespeth
We are working on our photo album. This one, of my husband and his big brother, should win a prize.
Circa 1950: How To Take A Selfie
1) Wait for Mom to go to the grocery
2) Have brother help you take down the bathroom medicine cabinet mirror
3) Bring that down to the back yard and prop it up
4) Get the camera
5) Lay on the ground. Face the mirror. Take your picture.
Ellespeth ♥
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” – George Orwell 1984
Ellespeth
Santa Clara County, CA -Three Months Crazy – but healthy
When I was 13 my parents asked me what I wanted to do for my birthday. Jimmy Durante was going to have a dinner show at the The Roosevelt Hotel. I adored this guy. Every time I saw him on TV I smiled. So…I told them I wanted to see his show. And…they took me. And…he came to the table and had a piece of my birthday cake. I was beyond happy!
Ellespeth ♥
Santa Clara County, CA – Shelter-in-Place Week9
Weather forecast calls for an Atmospheric River for our general area between yesterday and Tuesday. We’re due a total of 0.03 inches of rain.😂 I can’t help it…coming from New Orleans, I would expect more rainfall during something called an Atmospheric River. But, we’ll take all the rain we can get and it gives us something to think about besides the pandemic.
Partly over the weather forecast and partly because I wanted to smile today ( while waiting for this weather forecast to materialize) we’re watching ‘Singin’ In The Rain’… take a few minutes to watch pure bliss unfold. I mean, what else do you have to do? And who else remembers tap dance lessons?
Ellespeth ♥
We’ve been ‘sheltering’ since March 16. My birthday. Two months. And Himself’s birthday has come and gone, too. I still haven’t figured out exactly what to do with myself. My time. All these hours. My gawd! Where did all of these hours come from?
And then, you know, I can’t find any disinfectant from the grocery delivery people or from Amazon so I’m really pissed at Trump for buying it all up for his detox which, by the way – isn’t working.
Ellespeth ♥
