what a rare mood I'm in

 As I twirled around the kitchen like a clumsy hippopotamus, chef’s knife slicing the air more than the vegetables laid out on the cutting board in front of me, this song played:

What a day this has been!

What a rare mood I'm in!

Why, it's almost like being in love

There's a smile on my face

For the whole human race

Why it's almost like being in love

All the music of life seems to be

Like a bell that is ringing for me

And from the way that I feel

When the bell starts to peal

I would swear I was falling

I could swear I was falling

It's almost like being in love

~Natalie Cole

It seemed to sum up my mood (for a short period of time) in a few simple lines so rather than drivel on about my endless day, I’ll let Natalie Cole’s sweet voice tell the story.

I did go down a few rabbit holes about the events yesterday, so the line about ‘a smile on my face for the whole human race’ didn’t exactly mirror my feelings... A few times I couldn’t resist commenting while most of the time I held my counsel. So many crazy people out there! I did have a loose New Years resolution about staying out of the comments so I’ve already failed. I can’t help myself!!! 

Headlines: Worst day to date for covid death’s in Ontario, same for the US. 3412 deaths today in the US. That’s 2.4 deaths a minute. Crazy. We are doing better but not by much.

"The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers. Queer little red bugs came out and moved in slow squadrons around me. Their backs were polished vermilion, with black spots. I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

~Willa Cather