Getting ready for spring

I tried writing before but for some reason my post wasn't published so I will try this again.  Anyway today I felt inspired by the warmer weather and sun to get my porch ready for spring by getting rid of the old dryer and taking it to the dump.  I asked my neighbor to help me put in the back of the car.  I have a few wind chimes on my front porch but I went to look for my fish wind chime that I bought last year and had stored away.  Unfortunetly something destroyed the string so now the fish wind chime is fish parts which will need to be recreated.  That is o.k. an adventure that I can embark on with my beads, fishing line and old kitchen utensils.  I will make a new wind chime.  Last summer, I really got into my front porch and decorated it with flowers, mosaic pots, strange art, a French bistro table and various wind chimes that I picked up at thrift stores or ones that I made of beads and kitchen utensils.  I made my front porch a comfortable place to hang out and read a book or have a meal outside.  I always thought I should make my back porch into the place to hang out but it felt too lonely out in back so after struggling with thinking I should make the back porch the place to be I shifted my focus to the front porch.  It was fun playing with the space and I even painted my front door a sky blue.

I am humbled by the situation in Japan - wow - so much suffering.  It is hard to see people have to go through so much - it is hard for me to wrap my mind around the situation.  It is weird because I saw a movie (Departures) that was made by  a Japanese director and which featured funerals as a major aspect of the film Thursday night - kind of weird.  Things like this earthquake remind me of how little control we actually have and that things just happen like this.  I hold the Japanese people in my heart during this challenging time.