Today, Tom and I went to a neighbor’s funeral. It’s his second in-person funeral during the pandemic (which I count as beginning for us in March 2020), my first in person during the same time (another one, I attended online).
I’ll miss talking with her, which these past years meant calling out to each other with the street between us. We could pack a lot of opinions and laughs into those conversations, as I did with her daughter, who died in 2020. They both loved family, music, dogs, and politics. Probably you can see why I enjoyed being neighbors with them.
Afterward, I came home and went back to my manuscript. On a break, I wrote this little poem using words from The Nerd Poet Magnetic Poetry Kit.
I do sometimes use the Coping Skills Toolbox that I blogged about in April 2020. Today, I copied the MagPo poem into the little journal where I used to record poems several of us wrote using magnetic words. I probably need to look inside this box more often.
