Take Note

I’ve been pondering what to post here for a while now. For just a little over a month to be exact.

You already know how I feel about social media, yet here I am, blogger, therefore hypocrite to dare speak to any kind of annoyance about people bearing their souls and selfies, clicking send, and awaiting a response from the universe.

The more I observe in the social media world, the less I want to be a part of it.

Yet I love to write. And I love to share things happening to me in real time. I love the time capsule my blog has become.

I have started and stopped so many posts which are traditional to what I share here (restaurants I’ve visited, coffee shops I’ve enjoyed, trips I’ve taken, new things happening in my life) because I didn’t want to find myself becoming like the things I dislike the most. Because we all know the problem is what lies hidden beyond the world of what we like, post, and share on our social media outlets.

You know, the real world.

Hopefully I’ll be able to find my groove again. To share here like I did before, knowing I can be true to myself and to this little audience of people kind enough to find some semblance of entertainment in my writing.

As part of my 2020 goals, I told you I wanted to keep more notes about life.

Interestingly enough, life right now is certainly something worth writing about. I encourage you to do the same. Whether you simply jot little notes about the things you are witnessing, or snap pictures of unbelievable sights…do it. Because one day you will have a story to tell about this unbelievable time in which we are living.

I keep thinking I’m in the middle of a dream and I’m going to wake up and think to myself, “Wow, that was weird! What did I eat last night?”

My best image captured so far is this. Cars practicing social distancing.

Every day I journal about what is happening. Some days it is simply the facts, other days it is what I’m feeling. I hope to share snippets from my journal with you as the days go on, while also intertwining some lighter posts about things I’ve withheld from sharing because of my social media allergy.

Like this:

I was in Miami until a little over a week before the Q word went down. I overheard three business men talking about COVID-19 while we were at dinner one night, but I was confused because the one man kept saying something about the “Deaf toll”. With my vacation mode brain, eventually I realized he meant “Death toll” but he kept saying his ‘th’ with an ‘f’* and that sparked a completely non COVID conversation between Hubby and me. But, aside from this and a shortage of hand sanitizer in CVS, you wouldn’t really have known anything was about to change in our world

*The lesson I’m bringing to you with this is please enunciate properly.

Possibly my favorite day was spent not in Miami, but at NASA

You know I shy away from broadcasting my opinion on controversial issues, and social media is about as terrifying a place as the supermarkets right now*, so today I thought I’d end with a scripture. There are a lot of very comforting scriptures being passed around right now and I’d recommend meditating on them, rather than the news.

*My mom scored me pasta and flour yesterday. Woo-hoo.

Here is mine for today:

Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version (NIV)

⁹ What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

I think pandemic viruses are included.