Approaching Ends

Sunday was actually a very pleasant day, relaxing and accomplished. DH wanted me to take photographs for him, but that didn't quite happen (I'll blame the basketball tournament, the baseball game and the pro basketball game for this). But we went to Barnes & Noble and spent a lovely hour browsing the magazines and books and had a cup of Starbucks coffee. We then did a quick drop-by at Michael's Crafts where he picked up three paint brushes and I got a set of jars that were perfectly sized for the covers I use in my pastel work.

I usually prefer Caribou Coffee, but the occasional Starbucks is a treat.

Home again I worked on pics for CB's Big Bang. I sent two photo montage pieces off to her, re-inked one picture that she wants recolored so that it's ready for pastels on Wednesday, and caught up with TOO MANY Emails. But I enjoyed a relaxing day and I'm looking forward to the final flurry of pastel work on Wednesday.

Spring snowstorms are the worst! We've had an
unusually cold March. Normally by the end of
the month we would have at least one 70 F temp,
this year we haven't had a single day above 40 F.

As we enter the last week of March, many people will be getting pounded by a final storm of this very difficult month. I'm hoping that we have ducked the bullet again, but I know that this latest story will be hitting south and east of us with strength. I feel for all of you who will be hit by this - it's been a very LONG winter.

Happy Passover

Pesach (Passover) begins at sunset tonight. I don't celebrate it any more, haven't since I was a kid, but I always enjoyed it. Getting together with family, eating the specific dishes, drinking (very bad) wine, and asking the questions - "Why is this night different from all other nights?" - are parts of happy memories for me. I attended a variety of Pesach dinners in my youth, both with family and at the homes of strangers. There was something so wonderfully unifying and uplifting about the ceremonial foundation and the good dinners. So to those of you, my friends, who celebrate this holiday - Good Pesach.

An apt comparison with our own tawdry, shameful past.

And finally, don't forget the two Supreme Court cases coming up on Tuesday (Proposition 8) and Wednesday (Defense of Marriage Act). People are already camping out in front of the Supreme Court to get seats to hear tomorrow's arguments. Rallies are planned throughout the nation on these two days. I won't be attending either inside of the court or at any rallies, but my thoughts will be totally turned towards these two cases and I'll be praying for one more chink in the wall that has been keeping LGBT people away from the legal rights they so richly deserve.