dual personalities

Nothing I did this week merits comment here, and considering current events, I think the best thing we can do over the weekend is to count our myriad blessings and savor them. Family (a new baby!) and friends go without saying, so here are a few less obvious things that I particularly appreciate these days.

1.Nature’s bounty

At our cabin a mighty rhubarb plant takes over a corner of the garden every year. For the first time ever (something like 22 years), I harvested some stalks and made a yummy rhubarb crumble out of it. Here’s to using what grows in the garden!

2. Whathavewedunoon, the adventures of a young Scottish couple who accidentally bought a derelict house at an auction and are slowly bringing it back to life. I am their avid Instagram follower.

There are an awful lot of decent people out there in the world and it’s good to remember that.

3. Watching the little boys next door “help” wash a car or do yard work. It usually ends up something like this

or this,

and naturally that reminds me of my own boys.

4. Any endeavor that demonstrates that people are working hard to make good stuff happen. SpaceX made history this week as the first private company to launch humans successfully into space — and at a fraction of the usual price.

Not all the news is bad, so let’s stop with the negative waves! And speaking of negative waves, if you like Clint Eastwood movies, why not watch Kelly’s Heroes?

Well, that’s this week’s attempt to promote positive thinking. Enjoy the weekend and don’t feel guilty if you are happy or otherwise doing okay. If you want to make the world better, remember what Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” The rest will follow.

*Kelly’s Heroes

Note: none of the photos posted here are my own. I found them all via Google Image.