I haven't written in a while, obviously. Did you miss me?
There's been a lot going on. I've been traveling almost constantly during the week the past two weeks. Before that started, we found we had asbestos in more or less our entire basement floor and had to have it all ripped out. We're in the process now of patching it up so we can lay a new floor.
Work has been insane and exhausting. The kids started school again, our sink developed a crack that we're doing research to fix and my car's A/C died. Usual aggravating things that all tend to happen at once.
All the while, the world has gone around. Good things have happened and horrible things, too, that make our problems seem very small. Mike Brown was shot just two miles from my work, resulting in days and nights of riots and looting.
What a mockery of justice. And just when it seems things are calming down, the riots and looting begin again. I have no context for this. I'm not a minority, except when I visit my husband's family. I don't know what true injustice feels like. But I do know that, regardless of what he did or didn't do, what happened to that kid was wrong. What a horrible situation. And in this political and social climate, it will take decades for anything to change, assuming it does.
