We are excited! The “S” word is being whispered about the neighborhood. The flowers are blooming, the bees are out, the hummingbirds are smiling. Spring is happening here at this degree of latitude. Of course it has skips and starts but we are making progress. Time to find the soil thermometer and to start checking.

And Lent is on. Things are pretty disjointed here with church and the patchwork of Covid measures that have been imposed. Fortunately Catherine and I have been able to cobble together a meaningful sort of pilgrim worship. Maybe we will keep some of that even when church opens up again. But it will be the second different Lent in a row.

And there is some planning for our Oasis party in August. Cris and Ron working on the use of Zoom to help connect those that won’t be able to travel. We’re going to be uncertain about travel for a while yet. But Zoom is here to help us. And let me say that I think it is really important to hold the Oasis and to have it happen on whatever level that we can get away with. We need this and this will help us.

So, this is our world. It has big chucks that are uncertain but we move forward to make all that we can of the situation. Here we go!

smiling hummingbird loves, Felipé.