Forbearance

Here am I back from inability to write; have been busy learning forbearance. It's not that the intermittent days and weeks were dreadful so much as those were days of learning to otherwise cast my feelings in pursuit of forbearance.

Meanwhile, much remains the same. Jim still plays chess, helps me with chores, reads the morning papers (three or four times a day), and escorts me as a gentleman does with his lady. And I am his lady.

We continue to travel. Jim is loving it. Next up: Leaf peeping in Quebec in September; then back to Cabo for my birthday in late October. Thanksgiving with Pat in Delaware (we've been friends since kindergarten).