Brighter days ahead

I’m setting out to follow one New Year’s resolution. I’m going to shoot for blogging here a minimum of twice a week. I’ve promised myself and, much more important, I’ve promised my pal Linda. I cross my fingers.
January 20 seems like a bit late to be commencing on a resolution, but I’ve got cause. I’ve been sick with the-cold-from-hell. From New Year’s Day until last weekend I could do nothing but whine, sleep, and read—only now I can barely remember what I read! Now I’m in recovery, but not well yet. The Sunday beef soup was my first cooking effort of the year; I think it helped.
I know I’m not the only one to be laid low by this. My England-based son had it so bad that he perforated an eardrum. He reports that about everyone one in England and across Europe (he travels lots) is recovering or still suffering.
Linda, who lives in Massachusetts had it late in December. To think I thought—oh! right—when she said she’d been sick over two weeks. She was probably being conservative! Linda is an artist, an artisan, a craftswoman, lots of wonderful things. One, she quilts and then share her work on her blog. The squares become a visual journal. Here’s how she felt when she began to get well. She says it for me exactly! And she said I could post it here.

See it on her blog at
http://lindadrawingtime.blogspot.com/2011/01/after-plague-journal-quilt.html , and then check out some of her other creations--all wonderful!

Now, for me, I’m on to brighter days and frequently blogging.