As if a deadly pandemic, racial injustice, a corrupt incompetent WH, economic devastation, climate change disasters, and etc. weren’t enough, we have…a catastrophic hurricane [Laura]!  Just another day in the year 2020.  It’s terrifying just to be alive.  But we carry on, thankful not to be in the direct path–for now.

We each have our coping mechanisms.  Misu has the most enviable position–oblivious!  She just finds yet more ways to get comfortable.  Here she is relaxing with her feet up against a cabinet, and under the step stool in the shower, where E is installing bathroom crown moulding.  Not even loud power tools disturb Misu.  Oh to be a cat.

And of course I garden, when it’s not so g-d-awful hot out, or, as I’m doing now, watch the wind whip up the flowers outside my window, where goldfinches and pollinators are busy at work.  And let us not underestimate the therapeutic properties of a good, cold microbrew.  We get by.