a complete pageant

May's weather has been about as unreliable as I feel - sunny, hailing, near perfect, rain.

A complete pageant of meteorology. And of humanity.

The first part of this month has taken a lot out of me. 

Helping host a garden party to benefit the education foundation, and being present at the memorial of a beautiful young lady, gone way too soon. Reading the news. Celebrating Mother's Day and attending the boys' piano recital and planting seeds. Feeding the neighborhood. Interviewing scholarship candidates and cleaning the house and collecting a million more borrowed library books, knowing they won't even last a week. Writing the future.