Hey everyone (my beloved handful o’ folks)! It’s been quite the year/month/week/day already hasn’t it? I won’t try to recap the last six weeks. They’ve been a lot. They’ve been a lot and then some. Work has been whelming, I’ve seen so very many doctors (largely preventative/precautionary stuff), Nicole had to take a trip for family stuff, Nicole came back. It really feels as though an entire year has been crammed into a few months. Here’s hoping things unwindulax a little in the summer.
Today I Learned: You know those round things you see on the Buddha’s head in all those statues? I always assumed they were a very specific hairstyle. I was wrong.
Those are snails shells. I had no idea. They are known as the 108 snail martyrs. I won’t spoil the story, but it’s a good one. I’ll certainly never look at the statues the same way again.
Anyway, after all of the busy, busy weeks of April and March, I just wanted to remind everyone to feel grateful for what’s good in your life. Odds are pretty good you deserve those good things, but that doesn’t mean you can feel gratitude. Besides, “deserving” is no guarantee of “having.”
Nicole planed a garden to provide a home for the baby snails we have in our tank that we can’t keep. Here’s the first one we saw on a big piece of leaf of lettuce in the middle of the garden.
That all for now. I hope everything is going well for you, and that you’re in a place where you can appreciate it.
-RK