and it is HOT in Riverside, California!
Awakening
to
climbing
temperatures
that
announce
at 6:00 am
another
hot
day
on the way.
I rise
to turn on the fans.
Oddly
the first thought is about
the heat
and not
about my widowed status.
You see,
there are many ways
grief follows us;
tracking us
through a variety of
events
or non-event
calendar
days.
Time-tracking
markers
such as
birthdays,
social gatherings
when this happened
or
when that happened
that mark
time.
Some
events
very
personal
to
us
alone.
This morning,
however,
it is just
a
very HOT day
in
Riverside,
California.
Grateful
for
the
tenor
of
a
simply-ordinary-day.
