For some reason, I remember reading about the energy it takes for flowers to grow when I looked up information about tulips. Glad that they have enough. I was beginning to think that I should have bought bulbs from somewhere else...
It was nice to wake up at my own pace this morning. I am reading Circe right now -- a book that someone gifted me. It's weird how something comes along when you need it.
These lines on page 208 stopped me in my tracks. "Odysseus, son of Laertes, you have been hard-pressed. You are dry as leaves in winter. But there is harbor here."
And the word hard-pressed resonated with me. Someone posted this bible verse on social media and I don't remember the circumstances but it also stuck with me:
2 Corinthians 4:8-12
*8* We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; *9* persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
I have some harbor but not a lot. Join the club, I guess...
And, as soon as I wrote those words, I remembered the "grandma" in one of Anderson Cooper's podcast who said, about Russian soldiers, that she would shoot them without her hand even shaking.
