In a former life I was asked to create days off (with pay for state workers) and that didn’t really work except for Martin Luther King Day, and we all were off for that and we took a station wagon to D.C. and did events all day and heard Coretta Scott King speak at the AME church. Amazing!
My role at work was to stop these things from happening and no new days off were approved on my watch but three days of commemoration were to be celebrated. Raul Wallenberg, (NAZI prisoner and Swedish freer of thousands of Hungarian Jews from Hitler). Tadeusz Kosciousko (Polish hero 1700’s) who has a bridge nearby and Saul Wollenberg who helped finance our Revolutionary War in the late 1700’s.
Of course I did 1,000 other things but as I look back these are more important at this point in my life. See, I always let other people steer my life from parents to college to bosses. Believing in myself, walking an old dog and cooking breakfast and dinner for husband and dog every day for years is comforting. Writing is a joy. Having challenging conversations with a really smart person makes me want to get up every morning. The dog, Zoe, doesn’t talk so much as make her essential needs painfully known, no matter day or night.
Cheers and have a wonderful day! Dee
Cooking with Dee 