Wining About Covid

There are (well at least) two songs that have been very meaningful in my life, but a specific two are coming to mind now.  One I heard while in Greece (Santorini?) as a child on a family vacation: Those were the Days .  The other was at an evening out and I heard it at a restaurant: Is that All There Is? .  Or did I hear them in the opposite places?  I'd swear "Is that all there is" was sung also by someone like Julie Brown but I can't find it now.  Julie Brown?  Souxise?  Bow Wow Wow?  Can't remember.  If anyone knows I'd love to know.  Anyway: they've both come back to me today.  A message in both: keep dancing. And that is my message for today: Let's Keep Dancing. I had a fortune cookie yesterday that said "A bird does not sing because it has an answer.  It sings because it has a song."  I told myself that my fortune cookie was going to be very momentous and enlightening.  And then that.  Gee thanks. I had bee...

I finish my big project at work, we've been at Level 1 for quite some time (since June 8th and 102 days since last community spread). One or two days notice and I book the place I was going to go for my birthday. My brain is exhausted and I need the break.  Jacqueline can't come along because of the timing but my brain just isn't working and I really need a break. I also tell my friend Chris he could come stay for a day and we could do a day silent retreat, but he has other plans in Auckland. So- on August 11th I put on my big girl pants and drive myself up a half an hour north of Auckland (3+ hour drive). I get in around 3pm and decide to take the afternoon easy and just hang out there even though I'm less than a mile from a couple of wineries and I haven't made it to one yet since being here. I could go the next day. I'm tired but staying up late because someone at work offered a class on self worth and I signed up for it.  My old life a class at 11pm w...