Saturday, 19 May

10 for this hour.  Sun & breezes.  Friendly waves.  Some young adults in a speeding car slowed to wave and smile with wild enthusiasm.  A full hour without any negative energy tossed our way.  Conversations turned on aging parents, some in decline another flourishing at over 100, and gardens and an impending wedding.  The insanity of Arizona politics occupied several minutes with degrees of outrage; one woman compared it to Mississippi in the dark days of the 20th century.  Books banned led us to talk of books being read. And, thus goes an hour of peaceable gathering and a careful eye on the passing traffic -- I feel it is important to make eye contact when the opportunity arises.