Oh look, Spring!

Long week ahead.  Should be cleaning the house and doing laundry and doing taxes and going running and writing a couple papers for class... but I was captivated by this little picture.*  Oh Spring.  Thank you for peeking out from the lifeless looking ground.  Yesterday I spent a couple hours at the park mostly just staring into space and people watching: an older couple wheeled a hospital bed with a shriveled little person around the pond, as though it were a stroller.  A pretty white mommy played with her tiny boy who could only sort of toddle, but he toddle he did - exuberantly.  An older man with a remote controlled sail boat.  A miniature football game between a little black boy and girl - the girl galloping around in circles with the ball, the boy falling to his knees with a moan as the game was treated so frivolously. 


In other news, Samm and I now have health insurance (through his work).  And also, lots of millions of other people are going to get it too hopefully.  I am both chagrined by the political drama and full of hope that our health care system will become slightly less ridiculous as a result of the new rules for insurance.  We will see.  I guess it will take a few decades to be sure what it all means.  I guess I can hope in the meantime.


* This picture is completely stolen from Rachel and Dan Jamison. Hope they don't mind.