My friend Carol left late last night and is now safely back in the friendly confines of our Asylum.
And I am home alone. With my cold, sinusitis, laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia whatever. There is definitely a cold, sinus, laryngitis component. I spent the day enjoying poor health. After my morning walk – to Walmart for additional OTC drugs – I read, napped, drank gallons of tea, that sort of a thing.
Yesterday, I got a mail packet from home – I didn’t even open it up. Any and all problems can be dealt with when I get better.
Carol and I watch the Women’s March yesterday from the lanai.
There were lots of kids. And almost as many men as women. And everything as low key – with a little dose of snark.
And the yacht left this morning. Guess they could only stand but so much excitement.
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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. H.L. Menchen In Defense of Women (1918)