Some End of the Week Levity
Friends, we are in danger of losing the adverb. Even the NPR station here in mid-Michigan says, every morning when it snows, drive slow! Though I holler at them, though I rage in the car driving Tibe to the park, then continue to say, drive slow, drive slow, drive slow. Every my father, a high school teacher for thirty years and a committed lexophile, admits that the adverb is a lost cause. It is tragic.
About three blocks from my grandmother’s house, on the street I must drive from our house to hers, a can hit a skunk three days ago. Since then it has rained, frozen, rained more, snowed. That skunk still smells. I have to be honest, I admire how it endures.
The Sunday between the Monday that Tibe bit the other dog and the Friday that Prince George’s County ordered him out of the county forever, I walked Emma. It was the day after Halloween. I picked up stray candy wrappers and other trash as Emma and I slowly rambled the streets of our old neighborhood. If I could I would go and throw all of that trash back on the streets.
Today, walking Tibe in the park, I picked up some trash (the park is very clean; it was unusual to find trash). Then Tibe and I played with purple dragon on his long lead. He fetched it, chewed it, caught it and threw it. After, I picked up the small pieces of white stuffing that came from purple dragon. Tibe and I both have pride of place. We want to care for where we live. We want where we live to deserve our care.
The woman working at the Little Caesar’s tonight when I picked up a pizza was exhausted and stressed and she had to work until closing. My singular goal this year is for my grandmother to live to vote for Hillary Clinton in November because she was a working woman who often must have had exhaustion in her eyes and because that woman at the Little Caesar’s needs a country who offers her more.
This was supposed to have levity. Walmart has the cheapest prescriptions in town, so my grandmother’s scripts all go there. It is convenient to pick up her medication and then quickly pick up some groceries as well. Tonight I did just that. Yoghurt, cheese, sugar free ice cream, breakfast sandwiches. Walking back from grocery to pharmacy, I noticed that the spring clothes are out at Walmart. There were some cute skirts. If I buy a spring wardrobe at Walmart, send a rescue squad; if I buy a spring wardrobe at Walmart, we have been in Saginaw too long.
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