Share what's pulsing in your heart

            I tuned in to our UU church service today. One reason I felt like attending was to take part in the “joys and concerns” ritual. Usually we stand up front, light a candle, and share our thoughts in a microphone. Now we type them in from home, and the worship leader reads them.
            I’m thankful for:

• Tinybeans, an app for sharing baby photos to family. Nellie and Mike have kept us infused with smile-inducing photos like this one; evidently Fiona was highly entertained by Nellie’s rendition of “The Wheels on the Bus.”
• Janet Mills. Maine now has a governor who exercises rational compassion. I feel safer under her leadership.

            Among my concerns:

• Nellie starts her ICU month tomorrow.
• Sam is in the hospital all the time in Baltimore.
• One of our German exchange students sent a wistful, unhappy text.
• A college friend in New York has tested positive for COVID and is immunocompromised.

 
            Technically, it changes nothing, but somehow it helps to share what’s pulsing most insistently in the heart.
 
My 60th year in 60,000 words
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