privilege, spring flowers, mourning my mother-in-law, when my dad died, KIN by Tayari Jones, afterlife, animal dreams, enlightenment thing-ing,

yesterday i was grateful for Sabelico’s nursery for lots of pretty flowers… today i am looking forward to the april iteration of soup socials… reading my blog post from yesterday i realized i come across as rather privileged… i guess i am… we have pretty good cash flow in retirement and accumulated resources… some of which we developed ourselves, some of which we inherited… i am grateful for all of it… i hope i am not coming across as a privileged prick though… i don’t want to be that guy/gal… i apologize if i was... yesterday we bought flowers for the front porch and cleaned up the front and back gardens… i am trying to commit myself to at least an hour of physical labor/day around the house or in the garden… i am looking for the dual benefit of exercise that makes order out of chaos… i wonder if this has always been the best way for humans to be active… when did we start to separate exercise into it’s own specialized pursuits with concomitant equipment to purchase?… again, this is a…