Grace Over Perfection

It’s well below freezing. I have on thermal pants, two sweaters, a down jacket, a wool hat, multiple pairs of socks, and ski gloves…oh yes…and a blanket. I’m sitting on my front porch watching my friend wriggle herself into the other Adirondack chair. Her wine is balanced carefully in her mittened hands as she shifts to pull her blanket in tightly to keep out the frost filled breeze. It has been months since we have had the chance to sit just the two of us. Life has been hard, unexpected and exhausting.

It might be 2021 (goodbye 2020), but we are still sitting in the cold outside, making lemonade out of lemons.