"The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail." NKJV

Monday, January 16, 2023

the year 2022 in review

​      I looked back on this past year and couldn’t help but marvel at all the wonderful things I’ve gotten to do.   I wish I had written about the visits and trips individually when they happened but I didn’t, so I’m going to go back and revisit them from memory.

    june 13- july7 2022

   Sophie and Lottie arrived in nashville  June 13.  Lottie was 10 months old.  She was just starting to crawl.  She could move around a bit with her reverse gear working the best.  We got out a little pool that she really liked and we introduced her to watermelon.  Shortly after Sophie and Charlotte arrived Anthony complained of a sore throat and wanted cat medicine ( antibiotics).  After several days of his complaining a home Covid test was strongly so we confined him to his room.  Then Sophie and I both started sniffling.  We had reservations to go camping at Birmingham point on June 20 and to pick up Oliver at the airport June 23.  We went camping a day late since Anthony was recovered and we were starting to feel better.  It’s a miracle Oliver remained healthy after being confined in the camper with us.  We had a lakeside site and got out in the boat.  Sophie and Oliver went to Patti’s.

          After camping we took off for Pickwick for a family reunion over the 4th of July.  We had one there last year and Sophie wanted to see everyone so I planned another one.  I really wasn’t sure it was going to work out, as a number of people weren’t coming and there was no fireworks.  It turned out to be a good reunion.  I was relieved.  The visit ended July 7 when we took them to Kristin’s house in nashville and she took them to the airport.   Sad for them to leave.

MLK day 2022

​        Today is a holiday to celebrate a great man’s life.  I’ve come to this realization gradually.  As a sheltered white girl growing up in Memphis in the 70’s I never heard anything good about MLK.  If anything, I heard disparaging remarks about creating the holiday.  I didn’t know much about civil rights in the 60’s as I was a child when it happened and it hadn’t made it into the history books I used in high school.  Since becoming an adult, I’ve learned about the Montgomery bus boycott, the freedom riders, Emmett Till and sit ins.  I’ve listened to the words of Martin Luther King and visited his memorial in Washington.  He was a inspiring leader and a martyr.  It’s fitting to have a holiday in his memory.