Wednesday Wanderings

My trip to New Mexico starts tomorrow. I still need to pack. With weather forecasts of high temperatures ranging from upper 70s F. to mid-50s F., I need to pack various clothes for layering.

• When I was leaving from the voting site for the local run-off elections, a lady stopped my car. She excitedly told me that she loved the color (light metallic green) and had the same shade in her eye shadow!

• I was surprised and semi-appalled that there is a NEW study out that advocates the benefits of breastfeeding--and that there will be less spent on healthcare if babies are breastfed for at least the first six months of their lives. The benefits of breastfeeding were so great and numerous when I was first pregnant 31 years ago that I nursed that baby (DC) . . . .so what is NEW now??

• If all goes well tomorrow, NKE and I will arrive at the Albuquerque airport at just about the same time in the afternoon. This is exciting!

• NKE and I remained friends since we were 12 because we wrote frequent letters to each other. I remember that on the ship ride (on a Navy ship, not a "cruise" ship) from Japan to San Francisco in 1964, I wrote a daily letter to NKE that was pages and pages long. Oh, the angst of being an adolescent! She once told me that when the pile of letters arrived in her dad's office in Japan, he called her and she rode her bike to his office to get them more quickly. I wonder if letters like that are even exchanged any more.

• I have a poem ready to be posted tomorrow, but am unsure if or when I will post again. Perhaps I will find a computer and an opportunity somewhere on this short trip!