Sunday January 19, 2024: A Small Moment of Delight

A walk and a squirrel.

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully, including my struggles to maintain a balanced life, what I listen to, read, and watch for entertainment, and occasional bits of information I’ve gleaned from doing the research for my novels.

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Daily Diary, Day 1600:

I confess it took me a little time to come up with a small moment of delight for this post today because it has been a rather rough week. I recognize this is what happens during that period when the acute stage of my various aches and pains is slowly passing, but I have neither healed sufficiently to get on with normal activities nor found an acceptable accommodation for those difficulties which appear to be chronic. As usual, persistence and patience is the key…but I do tend to get a bit grumpy at this stage.

However, this doesn’t mean there aren’t lovely moments of delight throughout my days. My morning shower, my lovely salad for lunch, and that oh so cute Elephant, which I am anointing with my favorite sticky-rice pu-erh tea several times a week, all which never fail to make me smile with pleasure.

But I finally decided that for today I would highlight the joy I felt in finally getting out again to take a short walk after a week of being stuck in the house. On that first walk, this very tiny, very cute squirrel in a yard definitely made me smile with delight.

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