buzzwords

i forgot my phone at home this morning.  pre-covid that would have been mildly inconvenient.  but now during 'the new normal', as they say, it's impossible to do my work without it. so much communication throughout the day is going on with the different group chats on whatsapp.  only a few staff are at the building at a time.  so, i had to go home and get it.  had to.

today i filmed what we have dubbed "the lunchkins scene" for our film.  lunchkins is in reference to the munchkins in the wizard of oz.  they dance and twirl and show the way down the lunch line up and to the snack bar.  we will have wizard of oz music accompanying it if we can.  

last night they made blueberry coffee cake for the social.  i had myself a slice for breakfast.  

i had a very productive day.  i watered the garden and picked ten green beans and one cherry tom.  i sent a week overdue letter to a prospective member's mom.  i emailed some of my young women who showed interest the info on our youth focus group that we want to put on for work.  i texted jane and yumi about it too.  i chatted profusely with everyone around me at lunch time.  we had fancy bean salad with chicken. it had mango and avocado in it.  approve.  i hosted decision making meeting.  and then karim and i sat together and edited at least 7 articles.  which is intellectually exhausting but also rewarding.  it's like a puzzle.  how to rearrange sentences and paragraphs, and what to cut and what did the author mean by what they said and so on.  karim and i are a good team with editing.  he is very good at it. just getting that many articles edited really made me feel better--more prepared for my time off.  

i finished off my work day imparting my wisdom and calm in what had been a high anxiety stream of convo in our manager's group chat that i hadn't been able to get to the whole day.  i realized that we were all feeling more work stress than we have felt for a while.   dave macdonald stopped to chat.  he was also at work late, for a meeting.

i came home chatting to sarah, and jordan and adriel and jane, and sloan, and heather, and karey about all the different plan.  i talked to heather on the phone.  i was buzzing from thing to thing.  i feel like i was a bit manic.  i didn't get supper ready until after nine.  woah woah woah.  heather would spontaneously combust if deprived of the nourishments of life that long.  i didn't even feel the hunger just my mind is buzzing with thoughts ideas and plans.

last night before i went to bed i checked instagram as i do most nights and i saw this story on the good news movement--the actor who plays captain american was talking, through digital screens, to a little boy and saying how he was so brave and he was so proud of him and his sister was so lucky to have him.  so then i wondered what had happened and i went through the posts from earlier looking for the original story.  i found it.  i was walking into my room to climb into my bed and i saw the words "if someone was going to die i thought it should be me": 6 year old saves little sister from getting attacked by dog.  i breifly saw 2 pics, the brother and sister who were adorable and angelic looking, and the after pic of the older brother after the dog attack and he needed i think it was 19 stitches and a lot of medical work and care.  i saw all of that in a snap glance and i burst into sobs and dropped the phone.  i wasn't expecting something so truly heroic and pure.  children are amazing and they remind us of  real love and true goodness all the time.

today i read a story on humans of new york.  a woman shared how she had decided to become a kidney donor and how afterward she had met the recipient and they became really good friends.  like brother and sister.  some time after she got a nasty form of breast cancer (probably it's all pretty nasty) and none of her family was near by and she was single. her donor called her sister in florida and said "don't worry, i got this.  it's my turn to take care of her" and he took care of her.  he took her to every chemo, was by her side the entire time.  i love that story.  her giving came back to her ten fold in the time that she really needed it.  and by being selfless she received exactly what she needed later on and the 2 of them blessed each other and needed each other.  so great.

feeling the feels.