You know - I’ve always liked your poetry better than your paintings and I think I’ve finally realized why - it’s because I love words - love to create paintings in my mind based on the words I read.
It’s not (never has been) that I think you can’t draw or paint - some of your art I like a great deal - it’s just that I prefer the words.
I love you

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My love - I didn’t write this past week and not sure if I will next week - but at least this time I have legitimate reasons!
This past week we had a hurricane! You probably heard about Hurricane Michael - well, it was here! Pretty exciting! The wind broke off 7 light poles on the main street in town but they’re not sure how strong the wind actually was because the first thing it took out was the monitoring equipment - lol. We lost power during the night Wednesday and got it back this afternoon. Fortunately we bought a big home generator a few years ago (they paid half and I paid half) - it will run most everything in the house if you don’t try to cook, do laundry, and run the AC all at the same time. When there’s no power I just go up to their house until it comes back on. There are many trees and roofs down around here - they’re still working on clean up and all - but we are all well. Ironically, the older children are in South Carolina with a Christian group, helping with clean up from Hurricane Florence - which missed us.

Then next week they’re operating on my eyelids - although it’s plastic surgery it will help with my vision. I thought I was opening my eyes very wide to be able to see better - turns out I was raising my eyebrows, which in turn pulled up my eyelids! Lol. I don’t know anyone who’s had it done so I don’t know if it hurts much after or not so I’m not planning on doing anything next week

I love you - wanted to make sure I got this out on the website and on its way to you so you’d know I was OK.

Oh! I got your letter today - where we live is considered middle Georgia. If you get a chance to look at a map, the closest larger cities (for reference) are Macon and Savannah - we’re about halfway between them

I loved the poem, even though it’s not yours - that’s mostly exactly how I feel - a few differences but overall it describes it. But - we learn, eventually, to accept what we can’t change...to move forward with what we have - particularly since we’ve done this to ourselves. I love you so...

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