Easter Sunday

I will admit I am not going to Easter mass. Instead I am trying to scope out the best chair for sun. Wish me luck. My blogs seem a day behind since I'm posting in the morning (don't want to lose sun time), so today I'm really talking about yesterday. Yesterday morning as I was running to get another tissue, I declared, “I’m the person you don’t want to sit next to on a plane.” This was after my Friday acupuncture session and a Saturday morning session full of antibiotics, probiotics, Advil Cold and Sinus, and nasal spray. As I found my seat on the plane, I wondered what was worst my sinus problems or the four second graders on each side of me including the seat next to me. The second grader next to me was playing his psp (or whatever the heck it was) with the volume extremely loud (don't they have headphones?). His father must have noticed my disgust and had him sit next the window as if this could lesson the sound of the machine. Luckily this was short lived, the boy was invited up with some friends, so the father was able to move next to his wife. Yes, I am saying I had the entire three seats to myself. A lovely two hour napping place and of course plenty of space and quiet to read after that was all mine.

I am writing down my three gratitudes one last time for Lent (Happy Easter).
a wonderful flight to Mexico
the beach and waves (ocean front room)
walking into town without getting lost

April Reading Connection
Yesterday I finished The 19th Wife. This is a book I told many people I wouldn’t be able to read, but I became caught up in the story (various stories) and its insanity. Towards the end the male perspective entered with Brigham Young’s prison diary. I would have incorporated more of the male perspective throughout the novel.

I also read Getting a Grip by Frances Moore Lappe. Of course I was located on the beach with no wireless internet. She had many links that I will look up when the internet is more convenient. Quite frankly sun trumps internet, but I digress. Lappe makes an interesting comparison between “Thin Democracy” and “Living Democracy.” It seems a bit simplistic yet intriguing to me. It’s about citizens getting involved being connected and making difference. Living Democracy is never finished; it’s a process. Getting a Grip is worth reading for my liberal/progressive friends. I will admit my iTouch failed me with this read because I couldn’t read the charts and some of the columns were goofy.