I haven’t been out for walks much lately, so I’m limited to whatever I can take from the side the of the road. It’s a vicious cycle. You need move to have health and energy, and you need health and energy in order to move. This afternoon I visited a high school friend’s mom, who much to our shock, I hadn’t seen in over a year. She’s 78 and says I don’t want to hear about all of her physical and cognitive ailments. I said I really wouldn’t mind. That’s what she and her friends talk about now.

But I did go out for walk tonight. I checked in with my son to see if he was free to Facetime. He wasn’t at the moment, but later. So I talked to him later, nothing pressing or important, mostly just to say hi. He was chattier tonight which I will take when I can get it. The other boys wanted to go out and spy on a camp group. I said they had to be back by dark and it was already almost there. After hanging up the phone I put on my shoes and drove down to main camp to see if I could find them.

When I returned home they were back at the house. I’d left my phone here so they tried to call Lauren to see if she’d seen me down at camp looking for them. They figured that was where I was. Dad has a meeting so after supper he headed out to Trinity. Elianna has been gone since leaving this morning with a meeting after school, then Miles’ house, then youth group. There’s always a parent around to supervise. One of the cats is sleeping in the laundry, another on the ottoman. Oreo is awake.