Day 43 ❦ Give thankfully

Day 43 ❦ Give thankfully

The Gift: African bracelets

Life begins to get back to whatever the new normal is going to look like, for those of us not greatly impacted by the floods, it takes on a day to day feeling of normalness with an underpinning of sadness. The loss and devastation is everywhere in town - cars pushed through the flood waters sit in fields and storage sheds and furniture are caught in shrubbery and deposited alongside the banks of the flood waters in very weird places. It is not unusual to see a roof or door hanging from a tree. The entire area impacted by the floods is covered in a brown mucky mud.

I am going to return to normal tonight and am looking forward to the distraction of my book club meeting tonight. We are a book group that “reads to eat” and we usually pick titles that tie into some delicious food offerings. Tonight’s book is the DaVinci Code and we will have a special guest cook - my daughter who lived in France for a year will be making a few French delicacies for us.  Along with Alison, one of our exchange students who is visiting for the summer will be helping her cook.

Our book group is a friendly group - we have very few rules and we laugh a lot. It is always something for me to look forward to and after the events of the last few days, I need to let loose and laugh...which I do. After the meal, Alison and Sevy bring out the creme brule which they have just whipped up for dessert and which required their presence at book group. As a thank you I give each of them an African bracelet. A good time was had by all...and for a moment...life returned to normal.

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