I feel safe and happy and cared for. Tomorrow is Valentines day and Pete made me a pair of wooden tongs out of teak and embellished them with hearts. One carved into the handle and one on each blade defined by tiny drilled holes. It is a perfect pair of tongs, nice in the hand, and, it picks up everything cleanly and surely. My favorite kitchen tool, they will be. I am touched in my heart that he made them for me.
I have nothing clever or whatever to say...I feel thoughtful.
Andrew and Melissa were here at the end of January with Maya. They spent a lot of time with me and we went to the beach at Malibu. It is a memorable beach...tide was out and there are myriad tide pools with anenomes between the rocks and a LOT of rocks. The day was beautiful, as this one is, and there were a bunch of otters in the ocean...or at least we speculated that they were otters...popping their heads up here and there in the seaweed...also, a large population of birds in a small lagoon...snowy egrets, terns, and further inland, near a bridge, a blue heron!
It was wonderful to spend so much time with them...and especially wonderful to get to know Maya as she grows...she is not only beautiful, but she is mostly happy all the time and she laughs a lot...Andrew is a WONDERFUL Father and Melissa a WONDERFUL Mother so she is a very lucky little girl...they TALK to her and she understands them....lucky.
I am so quiet inside that I do not have very much to say right now, so, I will go.
