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I Believe in Miracles . . . Covid Wins

 


All summer I’ve wanted to fill these shelves with green.  There have been a thousand and one thing that has stopped me, but over the past month, I’ve finally filled them with the plants and herbs I love.  It took me until October, but look at that green . . .makes my heart so happy.  

I’ve been looking at it feeling so happy with the end result.  It took longer than I thought, was kind of a pain, but in the end, I love it.  Yet another example of where I need patience.

Yesterday on my walk with my sister Doreen, a boy ahead of us on the trail called out to us.  We couldn’t hear until we got closer. 

“Snake!  Big huge snake on the path!”

Oh.  

Six months ago?  My heart would be thumping out of my chest.  Yesterday?  I’m like, “Cool.  Tell me when I’m about to step on it.” And on I marched until I was a foot or two away from it.  A big old gopher snake.  

“Hello, you big boy,” I said as I watched him slide off the path.  No, I didn’t want to hold him or get too near, but my heart rate didn’t change.

Then, about a mile later, the stick right under my foot shot out from under me and slid down the hill.  So strange, I thought, I didn’t touch that stick and it shot down the hill.  That’s when I saw that it actually slithered.  

Ah, yet another little friend.

Snakes.  They don’t terrify me anymore.

A miracle.

I’ve been feeling very cranky the last few weeks about things we haven’t been able to do, all the hard changes in our lives because of covid and just that nothing good is happening because of it—all is bad and lost.  

But since seeing that snake yesterday I’ve been reminded of a good thing that has happened . . . Which reminded me of other good things.  I spent three hours today going over all the photos of the summer and I kept finding myself saying, Wow, that wouldn’t have happened without covid.  Oh, we would have never done that, hiked or climbed that, drove there, had them visit, or enjoyed that if it weren’t for covid.

So here’s my photo list.  These are my covid wins—in no particular order or chronology . . . .












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