Four Pelicans Went By
December has been a crazy month – a whole team of hurry up and wait and go go go and collapse. But amidst all of this nuttiness, joy runneth over. From having our first interview for adoption, to immediately having a successful second one. To knowing the moment I walked in the room that something was happening with this woman I had never met to walking out aware of my life enlarging in ways I could never imagine.
Then sitting at my dining room table and listening to T speak with her friend, I opened a box from my friend that had just come in the mail. It was a calendar and every month had a different theme in pictures and comments she had added. Tears came to my eyes to know this person has touched my life in so many ways, so many times.
And sitting around the dining table yet again last night with T’s friend in from Burma, a friend who just recently came from Argentina, and my friend who walked only two houses down and brought a celebratory bottle of Louis Roederer champagne to cheer the new baby and the holidays – again I looked around and said to myself, my blessings continue to multiply.
I walked Loca a brisk, short time this morning, heading towards the museum and then looping around by the Botanical Garden and over the lagoon and back. We’re headed to the beach for some R&R this weekend so I knew by afternoon she’d be romping in the sand and water, so I told her she is one lucky dog. And then I added, and I’m one lucky chick.
Right then, four pelicans flew overhead. And I asked once again – Why me Lord?
What have I ever done, to deserve even one, of the pleasures I’ve known?