Yesterday and today were fairly quiet days, wonderful for reading and writing and thinking and just being near each other in our quiet, comfortable house. We both had a refreshing meeting-for-worship yesterday at the Quaker Meeting House, and we both -- even me! -- took some time after the meeting to chat with friends downstairs. I felt good about that, because that type of socializing has never been easy for me. I took the day off from exercising, but today I pounded away on the trainer bike, interspersed with pushups and various exercises with the weights. Cia took a brisk walk into Mystic and back. (Her pace is often way too fast for me.) 

Now, at 6:07, I'm sitting beside the fire, typing on my laptop and listening to Cia chopping up veggies for tonight's dinner. We'll watch the news as we eat, hoping for uplifting stories about how America is rising up in strength and peacefulness to protest our hopeless President's policies.