Bits & Pieces

I really have nothing flowing from my brain that I can put into a coherent and flowing post, but there are things circling and burbling:

• a conversation with my 90+-year old friend who talked of feeling isolated and the realization that many of us feel isolated, which goes along with...
• a conversation with my neighbor from Kenya about how people are happier in Kenya than the U.S. because of a stronger sense of community
• an observation that people with the liberal peace, love and happiness bumper stickers often seem the most aloof
• a realization that I need to read more classics after seeing the BBC Greatest 100 Books of All Time list again
  
• a hope Sophie likes her volunteer gig at the nature center and remembering my first volunteer stint and how I messed up a piano piece I played at a nursing home when I was 10, but was told it was quite beautiful and then realized that doing service is awesome, because it does not have to be perfect
• a desire to see the movies 127 Hours and Harry Potter
  
• an excitement over meeting someone today I've not met in person yet, but with whom I've befriended on Facebook
  
• an acknowledgment of my method of procrastination through blogging, since I really should be running right now