This morning, I got up around the usual time to tend to the animals. I cleaned the kitchen a little and did a run to the dump. Fiona was supposed to go to a bat mitzvah and I hoped to get the weekend chores done before she had to leave.

I got home and found her resting on the couch. Last week, she slipped a disk and has been in a lot of pain. Too much pain to make it to the bat mitzvah. So, I sat down and responded to more posts on Facebook.

At noon, C-Span streamed the New Hampshire Democratic Convention. I watched some of that and posted about it on Facebook. In between, I ate leftover and rested. Martin O’Malley referenced “The River’ in his speech

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse

It seems now, more than ever, we need days of rest, we need reminders to stop and appreciate the beauty of what is around us, we need hope to cling on to.

I’m still tired. It has been a busy week. Fiona is still in pain. I haven’t gotten as much done around the house as I would like, nor have I done enough writing.

So I will rest. I will enjoy what I can of the weekend.