Today is a party for a friend who has just become a citizen, after living in this country for many years. I'm happy for her, and it marks a big transition for her beyond citizenship, as her mother just died, and though she still has family in her home country, her husband and grown kids are firmly rooted here. What a rich life she's had, with different cultures and languages expanding her world. And that multiplicity has enriched all of her friends as well. It's a great reason for a celebration.
I'm kind of relieved to be at home instead of the cabin. On the one hand, I like to help "officially" open the summer season, on the other hand, the traffic going up and back and the sudden crowdedness of a place that has been quiet for nine months is disconcerting. I'll be up soon, but maybe not until after our daughter's wedding, at the rate I am going.
Memorial day seems especially poignant this year, with the bombings, attacks, tornados and other shocking violence. Death does not always come gently, as we've seen. It takes in the wrong order, and brutally, and without reason.
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