Next week would have been my 18th consecutive Rites of Spring in the Berkshires. Deep off the grid where I can’t even get internet if I want to. 

It’s great to not have access to the world for a few days. It’s freeing and could for the soul. 

Unfortunately, this year Rites of Spring has been postponed right now to Labor Day Weekend due to the Coronavirus. Which is the right decision, leave a few hundred people in the woods together and it could grab be a lot more than camp crud that you could get. 

But, I still want more to get disconnected for a few days. 

I will still have to work on a computer, but maybe I can avoid checking out the Washington Post, New York Times, Twitter and Facebook. 

I still want to continue my streak of saying Three Good Things which at over 1800 straight days is almost 5 years. But I can do that on WordPress. 

I hope it helps, I’ve been so exhausted. 

I really could use nature and community too. 

So not sure when I will do this. I will probably start next Wednesday through Memorial Day which would be the traditional days of Rites of Spring. 

A wonderful and sweet story about a lesbian couple that lived as “friends” for most of the 70 years of their relationship. 

Dealing with the closet, long term love, the All American Girls Baseball League, family and so much more. 

Very highly recommended and on Netflix. Keep tissues handy. 

I decided to blog every day in April.

It’s been a while since I was blogging a lot. 

It’s seems like I’m either all in or that I don’t blog at all. 

It was good to blog again every day this month. 

I don’t know if I want to keep going right now or not. 

I stopped because it felt like one more thing to do. 

It is a good platform though and good practice. 

I think I will try to keep blogging again even if its not everyday. 

Times are bad.

Times are weird.

A lot of us aren’t working.

A lot of us are working less.

We are all afraid.

We are all wondering what is next.

It’s proof to me that we need a society to be better to those in need.

To be better to those in crisis.

That doesn’t spend a huge amount of money investing in “welfare fraud”. But instead looks for the blatant fraud of the rich and connected.

A society where you don’t have to arrange a bake sale or the modern equivalent a GoFundMe when you get sick or have cancer.

A society where it doesn’t matter if you work to have access to care.

One where you don’t need tens of thousands of debt to pursue education.

One that allows people to express their creative freedom.

One that allows people to fall and come back again.

One with excellent mental health access.

One where we don’t have to fear being a paycheck away from struggling.

Where people don’t use paycheck loans to pay the rent or for a credit card.

We can and must do better.

This crisis proves it.

Eddie

Very disappointing. 

I’m not sure why it was made. 

Forky may be the worst character of the series. 

Sometimes trash is just trash. 

Ridiculous too. 

I guess Pixar can have some misses occasionally. 

Oddly tense too and full of bad decisions. 

Meh.