Adventure 545: Rainy Day Hopes/Post S

Today's rain. More color tomorrow.

It's a hard rain gonna fall, and it did all day. Johnny, Ed, and Frank took the opportunity to make fast friends with Tony, the local mechanic. At first he hemmed and hawed, muttering something about being just a two man shop. By the end of the day (Johnny thinks he felt sorry for us), Tony had Frank's tire fixed, had found and ordered a replacement air conditioning unit for Johnny's car, and made time in his schedule tomorrow (Hopefully, the part will arrive) for the repair. So, we all ended the day with "High Hopes". This fit right in with mine, Judy, and Deb's day. We watched a few episodes of Anne with an E, which still brings me to tears with its tenderness. One line that stuck with me was this: "The painful eagerness of unfed hope". Like Anne, I'm ever hopeful, I feed mine constantly. I find that to be a good thing in these life and times. Without hope, I'd spend my days ravaged by despair, crushed by cruelty, and paralyzed with fear. I can't bear the thought.  Beyond that, the language of Anne with an E is so inspiring, so melodic, so emotive, it puts joy in my heart, spark in my soul, and builds my faith utterance by utterance. So listen and enjoy a few delicious quotes from Jane Eyre:

"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils."

And that's how it should be. Be strong, be of good cheer, face the peril as courage brings all joy.

And then there is what Helen Burns says:

"Life appears to me to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

Hear, hear, walk in another's shoes, treat those as you would want to be treated. 

It's truly all just poetry if we let it be heard:

"Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence."

 One of the most endearing parts of Vermont is the country store like this one in Tyson.

 The first cribbage game. Frank treated us to a skunk.

 Deb and Ed in a planning session.

 A venerable stove in the Tyson store. Please don't touch.

Even untended, the apples bloom in hopes of spreading their sweet fruit among us.