The book promotion part of my life started out robust in early 2020.
My calendar was chock full of goodies, bulging with
Ways to engage with readers and market Mennonite Daughter.
Here is what January looked like . . .
Then came February . . .
How far I got with engagements in 2020:
In mid-March, things changed drastically, and from then on, my schedule went wonky, really wonky.
Although I had a book signing outdoors at San Marco Books in late August, my schedule (and many of those in the rest of the world seven months since the pandemic began), is still not in an upright and stable position.
Rachel Hollis, author and entrepreneur, about whom I posted a few months ago, would agree with me.
In the blurb from her new book, I Didn’t See That Coming, Rachel remarks: “I know hard seasons are made doubly worse when you never anticipated them.”
What I too have observed:
- Like you, I didn’t see the pandemic coming.
- I wasn’t prepared for an abrupt halt to the life we had planned.
- In the beginning especially, I found it hard to adjust to a new rhythm in everyday life, full of restrictions, shifting into new patterns.
Don’t get me wrong, I am truly grateful for what I’ve been able to accomplish this year. And I know there are lessons to learn with life in a slower lane.
Sherrey Meyer, writer
Sherrey Meyer, in her September 24, 2020 post titled “There is Hope,” reiterates some of the serious problems her home state of Oregon has experienced. Still, she affirms, Yet Hope Remains. You can find her encouraging post here!
Hope floats, umbrellas aloft, San Marco pavilion, Jacksonville, Florida
“We should make plans–counting on God to direct us.”
~ Proverbs 16:9 The Living Bible
How has the pandemic affected your schedule this year?
What signs of hope do you detect?
What are you most anticipating in 2021, if not earlier?
Good morning, Marian! I like that umbrella pavilion.
I’m not feeling particularly hopeful–though I try to find some glimmers.
I’m worried that as far as the pandemic things are going to get worse again before they get better. I’m not certain at all how it will be here once it gets cold. I am still not going inside anywhere. I’m fearful about the election, though I try to be hopeful.
I am looking forward to being able to hug family members and friends again.
I see your intention to find glimmers of hope in your nature photos and poetry. Mask-wearing to the grocery store and frequent hand-washing is part of my daily routine. Also, I plan to get a flu-shot and one for pneumonia as I do every year. Even though it won’t protect against the Corona virus directly, I shouldn’t be weakened by another illness.
Yes, real hugs would be wonderful, embraces we have often taken for granted in the past. Virtual hugs are a poor substitute, but here’s one anyway: ((( )))
Thanks, and one back to you.
We’re planning to get flu shots, too, this year.
I’m feeling the same way you are, Merril.
😉
We are thankful that my husband’s knee surgery happened just before everything shut down, on March 10. As for schedules, our summer was completely upended, of course. But I feel a special sadness for all authors whose book promo plans got shot out of the water …. you are with thousands of other authors. Many of us are reading more than ever though, so getting the word out, as you have faithfully done, is important. I hope you can return to some in person book signings etc. at some point. Hang in there!
Because my book launched September 2019, I feel like one of the lucky ones. Never would I have had a book launch with dozens of people socializing in fall 2020, nor would I have had bookstore engagements and certainly not a gathering at a retirement home like Landis Homes. My cousins and I got together and there was lots of hugging during my book tour in PA.
Yes, I will have more book signings. In the meantime, an author here in Jacksonville will feature me on her blog in November.
Thanks for your concern. Also, I’m glad Stuart had surgery, therapy and was able to proceed with home care before the worst came.
TIme to count our blessings, Melodie! 🙂
Your response reminds me of how Shirley Showalter and I had hoped to arrange for you to speak at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community at some point. Still a hope! 🙂 You read it here.
I absolutely love the umbrellas. They make me smile. I am glad the I make entries in my calendar in pencil. I made good use of an eraser this year! Some activities I mourned the loss of, or the transition of that activity to Zoom. Others I was a little relieved to be spared. (That’s instructive.) Still others I miss and will be happy to begin again – but only in person after the pandemic. I love that this pandemic as sharpened my skills in the area of flexibility. Letting go …
You are definitely looking on the bright side. Pencil and eraser work better these days than pen and ink, or worse– carved in stone!
ZOOM is great, but I’m getting a little weary of it, except for my Pilates class where we socialize a little first and then move into postures. Thanks for the reminder that flexibility and letting go are the best exercises ever, Arlene! 🙂
Lovely umbrellas!
Wow, Marian! Looking at the changes in your calendar, I don’t have adequate words. 😢 😭 This was indeed the year we didn’t see coming. A niece and the children of friends graduated but on Zoom this year. Sigh. I felt so awful for them and for you.
I’m grateful to God for providing hope for us. Without Him, I wouldn’t have any.
I appreciate your concern, but don’t feel too sorry for me. The bulk of my engagements happened before the pandemic hit, and then there was a lull, which I actually needed. The most sorrowful thing: loved ones who died alone, and then not able to hold funerals — or weddings, or actual graduations on a stage. Yes, God is the source of my hope too. Thanks for that reminder, L. Marie. 🙂
The pandemic has turned my life upside down. My current schedule, you ask? Weeks of blank pages to be filled with whatever I can dream up to do. Some days I’m happy about it, other days I resent it. Yet I try to trust the process a la Proverbs.
I think all of use have learned that pencil, not pen, is the best way to proceed with plans. Thanks for the reminder, Ally, to trust the process a la Proverbs. 🙂
Hi Marian, like you, my calendar changed drastically through spring and summer. It’s getting back to something a little less than normal, as I’m back to work instead of working from home and kids are back to school, even though most of it is online. Promoting a book would have indeed been difficult because of all the in-person events. Let’s hope we have a better 2021, at least more mobile. Love those umbrellas!
Barbara, I like your idea of a more-mobile 2021, something to look forward to. Our city has about 20 branch libraries besides the main one downtown. They have provided curb pickup and also service indoors with temperature checks and masks, of course. Books have been a sane “escape” for so many. Thanks for doing your part as librarian, a noble task indeed. 🙂
Funny coincidence, Marian! Just yesterday I took a picture of a cluttered calendar page for my own blog. Like you, I need a calendar I can scribble on and that shows the whole picture. You use colors and circles and other notations like I do. And like your calendar, mine has many blank days since March. I am carefully venturing out again, though.Two weeks ago I got on an airplane to visit my son and his family in California, a trip that was postponed twice and long overdue. In November I will go to Pennsylvania for the first time since Christmas. But I suspect I won’t be running around visiting and hugging people there as usual. Around home in Jacksonville, I’m still pretty much staying in. I will never take normal for granted again but don’t expect normal to return for a long time.
I’ll really feel like there’s hope when we can make plans to fly, as you have done. I’m sure it was worth the risk, however small, to see your son and family. I too want to go to PA to see my sister and other relatives. It’s a visit long overdue. WOW, Lorrie, my feelings certainly resonate with this thought: I will never take normal for granted again but don’t expect normal to return for a long time.”
I need to check out your blog, again very soon, Lorrie! 🙂
Marian — I love the photograph of the “Hope Floats—Umbrellas Aloft” display!
1. How has the pandemic affected by schedule?
It removed a boatload of curriculum creation from my schedule, clearing space to work on book two in the Sean McPherson series.
2. What signs of hope do you detect?
I have to admit that watching last night’s presidential debate pulled the rug right out from under me. But I woke up this morning with a full tank of tenacity—I’m ready and rarin’ to vote!
3. What are you most anticipating in 2021?
The publication of Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
You live by the adage: When one door closes, another one opens, as you work on Book 2 of your suspense series, even before Book 1 publishes. My mother used to say, “You’ll have to get up early to get ahead of her.” She may have been thinking of you, Laurie. Ha! 🙂
Nice post, Marian. How has the pandemic changed my schedule? For the first few months, not much. We are pretty isolated up here in the woods. Then Zoom entered my life. THAT was a huge change. Still is. I see clients only via a HIPA compatible cousin of zoom. Even my book talks have moved to Zoom. I have one coming up in mid October with a library in Ohio on my LEAPFROG book. One positive: I could invite followers I suppose. That’d be fun. Masks have moved from an uncomfortable cultural shift to something that’s apart of me. I have four now.
Like Merril, I expect the invasion to get worse before it gets better. Frankly I see no points of hope at the moment except time. On to November 3!
Janet, I think of you mostly as a writer/author, but you remind me that you are also a therapist. You have a lively life and get to live in the Vermont woods!
ZOOM is okay, but meeting my writers’ group this way is getting old. I hope we can meet face to face, even with masks and/or social distancing in 2021.
Best wishes on your LEAPFROG promotion in October. There was never a time when this book is more relevant. OMG!
I have found the pandemic an unexpected gift for me. I was way too busy before it happened and was ignoring my own creativity. I knew I had to change things for myself in order to slow down and smell the roses. I was doing that but ever so slowly. Staying at home has opened up doors for me that I forgot were closed because I didn’t have time for what was on the other side of those doors and have closed the doors on many things that have kept me from being who I am. I’m grateful.
Joan, as I was reading replies here, I wanted to tell another commenter the quote: “Live under the roof of hope.” I couldn’t remember the source, so I googled it, and what do you know, at the top of the list for these words was YOUR blog post from 2015, so encouraging: http://joanzrough.com/how-to-be-sane-in-an-insane-world/
Here’s to walking through the open doors we get to choose. Thanks for the wisdom in these words – and the freedom it provides. 🙂
Marian, You have made my day. I wish I’d remembered that post myself and continued reading it at least on a weekly basis. Thank you so much for finding it and pointing it out.
Yes, to open doors!
🙂
I think a lot of this has been a test of patience. The hardest part is not knowing when it will end. Hopefully, you will be able to reschedule some of your events down the road. Our son lives a long distance away and we haven’t seen him since February.
Are you working on a follow-up book?
Pete, I hope you can see your son soon. Yes, I do agree that the hardest part is not knowing when it will end.
You are not the first to ask if there is going to be a follow-up book. Not sure how to answer that yet! My husband and I have talked about doing a picture book of a scene with my memoir’s setting. Also, I could write about beginning new life in the city, a sequel.
I had a “fire in the belly” as I wrote about my early Mennonite life, both a legacy for my children, and recounting my path toward forgiveness. I believe I must have a similar passion to begin book 2. Thanks for your comment and query here, Pete. 🙂
What a gorgeous and bright photo as your header Marian! Funnily enough my sister and I were talking on the phone yesterday and she was saying about her diary, many scratchings out, new entries and so on. I said I don’t use a diary these days, I just leave scraps of paper around to remind me of what is coming up or what needs to be done. But I DID look at my diary last evening, briefly; there was nothing to see over these last months 🙂
I’ve got more interested in gardening and a little bit of creative cooking and some writing (not enough). We watch the US news from afar. I wonder when I check our local news this evening on TV how our economic markets will be affected by last nights’ debate. Already the rand:dollar exchange rate is awful. Everything in my country is worrying BUT the justice system seems to be working and a few high rolling politicians are getting their come-uppance. Not the big ones, yet. I am hopeful that the baddies see the inside of jail soon.
I can’t really imagine 2021 which is just around the corner. I just hope that people wake up and take precautions against a second wave and that we’re not forced back to level 5. Thank you for your thoughtful post, and comments from your readers! And for the very hopeful Proverb 🙂
You always provide sharp insights, Susan. Thanks for your comment about how you plan (or not) during the pandemic. You and I are fortunate not to be forced to adapt to a restrictive workplace. I would hate to teach exclusively online. Gardening and cooking seem like sensible and restorative ways to engage creatively.
I can barely tolerate the news these days: Just the headlines are enough for me. I prefer a more panoramic view with a global sweep, which I get when I see the BBC News America. Nevertheless, I’m glad you enjoyed the post and Proverbs 16:9, which on my best days I aim to live by. 🙂
Well, in answer to the first question; my schedule is pretty much the same because I have been with a Senior lady as a family helper since last Nov. but I have less to do now, thank God….for after the move where we are under 1 roof we now have some professional care givers come in and do what they do best.
For the second question; I’m always hopeful because I may live in this world but I am not of it as a Believer in Christ. He is in charge of my life and I trust Him as He has a future for me and a hope according to Jer. 29:11.
For the third answer; my prayer is that He has mercy on us in the United States because in every way “collectively” we have turned our back on Him and pushed Him out of just about everything. As with others I have personally been repenting for myself and my country “target focused” and not in general for our sins just like Daniel did in his book for his Nation. May the Lord have great grace and mercy upon us as we turn back to Him-the sooner the better and choose Him above all others and I will be voting for Trump because he has kept his promises and he is for Life and so am I.
Thanks for reading and commenting here, Charlene. You certainly are doing a great work, caregiving. It sounds like you are not at risk because you are doing in-home care.
Thank you too for your testimony of trust in God. The verse from Jeremiah 29:11 is posted on my kitchen counter, a good reminder during these uncertain times. 🙂
It was too bad about all your plans being disrupted. Author readings and signings have been cancelled but the good news is that people are reading more! All our travel plans were cancelled including visiting my family in Canada. Let’s hope 2021 is better for all of us. xo
Darlene, let’s hope 2021 brings a trip for you to your Canadian family – and for me, visiting relatives and friends in Pennsylvania.
Don’t feel too bad for me. I was able to meet all of my scheduled events but couldn’t plan for new ones, except mostly online, like guest posts/interviews. And I agree, maybe this pandemic will help more people to get hooked on books!
Always good to hear from you! 🙂
We are all still trying to adapt to the new normal. I was supposed to start a new job teaching a group of Chinese students in mid February and another of French students in April. Both trips got cancelled, as was a job interview due in mid March, which finally took place on Monday. I’m very pleased to confirm I got that job and I will finally resume work on 12th October! All the best with your book promotion. 👍😉
Congratulations on that new job, which you can look forward to in October. Perhaps another time you can teach those Chinese and French students. Thanks for the good news here, and all the best for your new endeavor, Fatima!
Thank you.
Wonky 2020! For the first time ever I had book events scheduled from April through July until all that changed. I felt like I was floating on Cloud 9 until Coronavirus changed all that for 2020… I’ve spent a lot of time working on videos, Facetiming (reading and talking books) with my Great-grand girl, developed a Poetry Party ZOOM with PDF presentation and discussion for our local library’s summer reading program–and so much more! I plan to finish out the year with a couple more Zoom presentations and work on a Poetry Party series for my blog too. Hope is alive and well even in the midst of a pandemic… Think of how much we have to look forward to when it’s over! <3 Blessed and grateful. xo
Bette, I admire so very much how you have adapted to the pandemic: taking advantage of open doors and even creating some of your own. You are inspiring me to make videos to showcase memoir writing and even promoting my book that way as well. Your ambition reminds me of Emily Dickinson’s lines: “Not knowing when the dawn may come, I open every door.”
YES! Think of how much we have to look forward to when it’s over! I too am blessed and grateful. Thanks for sharing hope and optimism here. 🙂
Marian, your calendar looks a lot like ours! I’m a bit of a home body, but I realize how good it feels when we do get a chance to just get out! Recently my sisters and I attended a book reading in Wilma Derksen’s back yard, everyone wearing masks and keeping their distance. Wilma’s teenage daughter, Candace, was brutally murdered in 1984 on her way home from school, and who the perpetrator was is still a mystery. She has written several books describing her journey through grief and her resolution to forgive, the latest called “Dispelling the Clouds…a Desperate Social Experiment.”
I’m looking forward to take a course on Memoir Writing via Zoom, starting tomorrow!
One thing I especially like about blogging is connection with readers who make me aware of other authors’ experiences. I looked up Wilma Derksen’s story online and intend to send a message, probably read her latest book too. Other readers, here is the link to the dramatic story of Wilma’s path to forgiveness of her daughter’s murderer, an event which happened in 1984: http://www.wilmaderksen.com/
Best wishes as you begin another chapter in your journey toward writing your own memoir. Thanks, heaps, Elfrieda!
This comment is from Linda Lee, Lady Quixote, who replied on my gmail account, but could not seem to post her comment here via WordPress:
This year has changed so much in our lives. We were supposed to attend my brother’s wedding in May in Missouri — that didn’t happen. We were supposed to attend my Lancaster, PA son’s wedding in September in the Dominican Republic — that didn’t happen, either. In July I was supposed to fly to Spokane, Washington to visit my family — Ditto, did not happen. There’s more that we missed but I have gone on long enough.
My last normal day was March 11, when I had jury duty. Luckily we reached a verdict that same day, because New Mexico was shut down right after that.
Good has come out of this weird year, too. I have never prayed so much in my life, especially when my New York granddaughter and her husband tested positive for covid-19!
I watched the presidential debate last night in its entirety and was flattened, too. I couldn’t get to sleep until almost 3:30 in the morning. Wow this year is CrAzY!!!
God bless you, Marian. I’m grateful that you are still blogging!
Thank you, Linda Lee!
Your daily calendar looks like mine and so many others no doubt. I feel like we’re in suspension waiting for something we don’t know to happen to give us back our lives and our loved ones and friends. Social interaction. 🙂
You sound like a wise seer when you say this: “I feel like we’re in suspension waiting for something we don’t know to happen to give us back our lives and our loved ones and friends.” When I taught cooperative learning techniques in faculty seminars, one of the tenets we emphasized was face to face interaction. I remember too that mentioning that communication is 70% non-verbal. I guess Zoom sessions are a good stand in, but I sure do miss real social interaction – and hugs.
Thanks, Debby!
I’m with you on that Marian. Zoom is a half decent bandaid. There is nothing like the personal touch. <3
Marian, sometimes, like now, hope is all we have. The pandemic coincided with my health issues so that pretty much became my main focus. No book signings or launch parties . I ended up doing guest posts as a means of marketing. Right now, I’m taking a long pause from the frenzy and enjoying the quiet and solitude though I do miss hugging my grandkids.
I figure at some point, this will be behind us as we adapt to a new normal— whatever that is. Great post, as usual. BTW, blogging about your book and your journey is a great way to promote your brand. You do that very well!
I get what you are saying, Kathy. Though I haven’t struggled with your particular health issues, I have stared into space a lot more these days than usual, savoring quiet and solitude. And though my grandkids live close by, they maintain distance and are content with virtual hugs, not the same as real ones. Because of our age, they are so fearful that we will get the virus.
And because I enjoy blogging, I’m continuing with that regardless of whether I see an uptick in sales on not. Blessings, Kathy, and continued recovery! 🙂
I love the umbrella photo, Marian. It would make a fun jigsaw puzzle. No matter the circumstances in the world, my calendar is always packed. I’m anticipating more writing in 2021.
“As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 1 Peter 4:10
You are an absolute phenom, Jill, working full time and writing one book after another. Whew! Also, I see you supporting other bloggers, often commenting before I get around to it.
Maybe it’s the happy hummingbirds, quiet and busy! 😉
Everything is up in the air, Marian! Luckily, we rarely plan in normal years, so while 2020 didn’t go the way we would have liked it, we were able to adjust. As a nomad, flexibility is key. Although, for the last six months, these nomads have been pretty steady. The good thing about that is all the progress with my memoir, as you know. Luckily, I never planned local book promotion events, since there is no local for us, really. So, online marketing it will be. At some point. Right now, Mark and I are pulling our hairs in regards to the self-publishing learning curve and obstacles!
Up in the air — I think that’s a perfect metaphor for our lives now. And being flexible, an essential trait for both a nomadic life style and for the writer life. (If you don’t bend, you’ll break, the subtext as I see it.)
Oh, my gosh! I know about the learning curve for self-publishing and the obstacles too. Along the way, I wondered, with all the stress involved, how come millions of books come out every year. Hmmmm I guess the story will out, no matter what.
Thanks for checking in during these busy days and know that I’m always in your cheering section, Liesbet!
You were such a STAR about marketing your book – I aspired to be like you in promotion. Instead, when we were locked down in mid-March i kind of sighed relief that I didn’t have to “get out there” and market myself anymore. (This is confession…) However, I must add that I talked to a large gathering at my ole CA hometown library in early December and in late January I talked to a women’s “salon” with 25 attendees about writing, my books, and publishing. Phew, got that done with a hand wiping my brow. Weirdly, I enjoyed both events once I was in the middle of them. It’s the “getting it on the calendar” and “putting myself out there” that just is so difficult for me. I am MUCH more comfortable “talking about my writing” and books on-line. So. there’s that.
I hope – how can we not hope? – that life will resume in the best way possible. My fervent wish/hope is to be able to touch/hug/talk in person with family/friends again. Soon. xo
Oh, and one other thing. I was invited (and attended) an outside book club two weeks ago to talk about my fiction books – everyone bought my book and they loved my talk. And it was FUN.
So, too much about me and my empty calendar, but I really liked your post about YOUR calendar. And I love your book!!!
Dear Pam, the purpose of comments is really to tell your thoughts and experience, so no apologies needed.
Yes, getting in front of readers is so much fun, and I can guess how animated you were facing the group. No wonder they all bought your book. I’m so happy for you.
I guess one reason I’m so doggedly determined is that this is my first (and maybe only) book, so I have to put myself out there as much as possible. Besides, I want to recoup my investment, if ever. Like you, I look forward to hugs in real time with “life resuming in the best way possible.” Thank you, Pam. You are an inspiration, as always!
When I started at the church, two of the pastors and I became very close. We had the same sense of humour, I guess. I called us “the fellowship”. When one moved away, he passed on some books he thought I might like. One was called “I didn’t sign up for this”! He told me to hold it in front of me anytime someone asked me to do something I didn’t/wasn’t prepared to do! lol
I read it this year…it was about Elijah, after God used him on Mt. Carmel. He went from a super-high to panic and he ran away into the wilderness. I was encouraged to discovery how God cared and restored him despite his own ridiculousness. This was supposed to be a year to recover, to write, to discovery, after “running” from a bad situation in my own life. God cares and has graciously allowed me to still be involved in ministry, though it’s very different. 🙂
Your story rings true because you practice Proverbs 16:9 in your own life. Some of the hardest times in my life planted seeds that yielded a better harvest than I could have imagined.
Thanks for sharing your own story here and reminding me of Elijah’s. How encouraging, Jenn! 🙂
One of the surreal things about the pandemic for me is that it hasn’t affected my schedule or plans at all, with the exception of no longer going to the salon to get my hair cut. I’ve been working remotely for an online college program for over a year, and my day-to-day is business as usual. I work on my writing nights and weekends as usual. It’s very strange to be in this bubble of normalcy when the country is in crisis and so many people are suffering.
You have stated so well my own situation. I wear a mask when I go out, which is infrequently, and do ZOOM for my writers’ club, Pilates, and other groups that usually meet face to face.
Like you, the suffering in the world has penetrated my bubble of normalcy: families with young, school-age children and workers in small businesses, the world as a whole in crisis
Thanks so much, Liz, for adding to the conversation here, so appreciated! 🙂
I can’t imagine how hard it would have been to bring a book out during this pandemic–or the agony of not being able to be with people we love when they’re hospitalized. I’m sorry the timing was difficult for you, and I’m concerned about a few friends who have books coming out now because I don’t see an end in sight to covid-10.
I was volunteering at Hospicare in March when we got word that a state of emergency had been declared. Everyone hugged and ran to grocery stores where shelves were already emptying. This stay-at-home time has been restrictive, but I wasn’t in the middle of a big project like promoting a book, so I enjoyed having less on my to-do list and fewer obligations in the world. I filled my car with gas only twice since that day in March and the tank is 3/4 full. Many friends and my son picked up food orders for me and I buy more from local farmers as well as grow my own.
Because the days were getting longer in March, I could look forward to summer and long walks with friends. We’re all concerned about the coming winter which can be long, long, long here, but I have helpers and friends who live within 5 miles (we call that a neighbor here), and a stack of books to read and endless sorting and organizing to do. I’ll be outside every day because that’s the deal I made when I adopted a puppy a year ago. I’m just grateful there are no forest fires here. May your book have a long healthy life despite the interruption.
Oh, Elaine, don’t feel sorry for me: engagements on my calendar were mostly fulfilled by the time the pandemic struck. On March 21 I was scheduled downtown for a signing at Chamblin’s book mine. All of the weekend activities that would have produced food traffic were cancelled, but my web guy came by and bought a book. He told me later on, that he actually read it too, which seems to me odd for a 45-year-old male. (I didn’t tell him that!)
My book actually launched in September 2019, so I could do a book tour and meet folks face to face, unlike authors whose books have come out this spring and summer.
The people I grieve for most are those with loved ones who died alone in a hospital, or are still in limbo with the ability to visit. No hugs, which is bad, bad for the psyche and emotional well-bearing for all of us. I smiled when I read “I’ll be outside every day because that’s the deal I made when I adopted a puppy a year ago.” Disco and Willow, I’m sure, provide comfort and furry love.
Thank you for the good wishes for Mennonite Daughter. You wrote your book as a path for healing through grief; mine has a similar purpose, providing a path toward forgiveness and letting go. Those are noble goals, better than topnotch book sales.
Blessings to you for a good week! ((( )))
P. S. I am going on a partial diet with news. Maybe just small doses of BBC World News America on PBS. 🙂
I guess I am not the only one who wants to see an end to this…I love the umbrella image on your post, Marian my photo on my laptop is colourful umbrellas… will 2021 which I am wishing would hurry up and come in be any better I am beginning to have my doubts…Be well and stay safe 🙂 x
We have similar tastes AND yearning for better days, which umbrellas aloft seem to suggest. I believe 2021 will be better but not sure what month. This virus has to blow away some day; that’s my wish and expectation. And I’m sure it’s yours.
Thanks for letting me know this, Carol. Thank you!