May 30, 2018

This week marks endings and beginnings for many people.  Graduations, moving and retirements come at this time of the year.  Vacations are planned and more time is spent on recreation.  The daylight stays around longer and so we find ourselves spending more time outdoors in it.

(I need to do a public service announcement here.  Put on sunscreen.  SPF 30, half  an hour before going outside and reapply every two hours.  My niece, Charlotte Besse, died last October at 42 of Melanoma.  This is Bakersfield and the sun is deadly!)

Back to my musings.  What I want to say is that this is the time to be mindful of the precious time we have.  Take a breath (or two) and look around you.  This moment will never happen again.  Appreciate it.  Savor it.  Remember it.

There was another shooting in Indiana and a Junior High Science teacher got between the shooter and his students, preventing a mini holocaust from happening.  Well, I am married to a Junior High Science teacher.  I asked him what he would do.  His immediate response was - "protect my students."  I have no doubt he would. 

But the bigger dilemma is that now, in the back of my mind, I worry about my husband going to work.  I use to rest easy in the fact that he taught children, a benign, safe occupation.  Not only do I worry about children now, I worry about my husband.  Very unsettling and a new reality I do not want to experience!

Be safe.