2/12/24

Monday, February 12, 2024

In bed at 9, awake and up at 3:50.  Let Lilly out.  25°, high of 42°, sunny morning, then partly cloudy.  Wind WSW at 8 mph, 4-12/19.  Sunrise at 6:54, sunset at 5:18, 10+24.  Solar noon, 12:05, alt. 33°    

Treadmill; pain.  Woke with shoulder & wrist/thumb pain.  Applied diclofenac at 3:50 and set alarms for 9:45, 3:45, and 9:45.  00:00 on the treadmill today from a combination of nasty pains and T & S's visit.

I'm grateful for Tom and Sue's visit today and tomorrow.  It's an honor that they make a point of visiting us before moving to North Carolina.  We have shared many overnight visits here and in Arlington Heights over the last several years, though it has been at least a couple of years since I could visit their home.  Each visit has been its own honor, privilege, and blessing.  With this move, I wonder when or whether I will spend time with them again.  Other changes: Kitty's death, TSJ's death, DPL's move to AZ, Tom & Sue to N.C.  The sun is getting higher and the days are getting longer.  For everything, there is a season, turn, turn, turn.  Ecclesiastes and Pete Seeger.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, a time to reap that which is planted;

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to gain that which is to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

A time of love, and a time of hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

The Byrds' version of Pete Seeger's song was at the top of the Hit Parade in late 1965 when I was in Vietnam, though I don't remember hearing it.  The only songs I have a clear recollection of while I was there were the most popular song on the jukebox in the officers' club, California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas, and Ebb Tide by the Righteous Brothers.