Reality Bites

Back to school tomorrow, with a phone call into the retirement office. Just to look at all my options!!! I have a few more hours, that are mine!!
Just finished my last vaca book, Choosing to See by Mary Beth Chapman. My heart is beating so hard, trying to not go to the valley. You see, she knows my heart. She has lost a child, and she is searching with grace. It was a beautiful book, about love and loss. My one question, in all the grief books that I have read, remains. "What did Ward learn from death?" "How did this make him stronger?" "Why is death suppose to teach us something?" Guess that grief book, isn't out yet? What an unwanted journey this is!
Two other books, that came to me this holiday vacation,(I think they all COME to me!) are, Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming by Rheta Grimsley Johnson. Rheta is enchanted. Laugh, cry and smile at the same time. This book taught me that we all live from Christmas to Christmas. That is our timeline. Christmas causes us to be distracted, the days are not ordinary. Then Monday comes, and the job of life continues. She ends the book with the words, Keep moving forward . That I like!
The second wonderful, little book jewel, was Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, by David Sedaris. Honestly everything he writes, causes me to be jubilant. This very different read, made my reality,nibble! Not bite!! If animals were more like us, is the concept, and he runs with it. I feel giddy to run with him. The illustrator is Ian Falconer , author and illustrator of the Olivia children's books. The icing on the cake, and I had a big piece!!
I guess my reality, was that I had some free time to indulge in some great reading, so I take back the title of this blog!!!!