TANGERINE CARROT

Dear Juji,
After you woke up from your nap I gave you a frozen bar of sweet, healthy treat. I think you liked it but it was just too hot to eat it without having it melt all over you and the floor. We went outside and it dripped on the sidewalk instead of my floor. It was much easier to wash off and you love being in charge of the hose and the water. You haven't figured out how to turn the water on but you are very good at filling up stuff and that's great! You have to start with the easy stuff and then move to the more difiicult tasks. The dali lama says that when we practice sending loving kindness, to start with the people we find the easiest to love (you, of course) then we add the more difficult ones, and so on, until we get to the truly impossible ones (Donald Trump, people who support FGM, big polluters, etc) and we don't push ourselves too far out of the easy people/creatures realm, for too much time. I think this is very wise. I practice on the bats that come in my house looking for a cool place to hang out, literally. And the spiders, although I do put the poison in the basement to train them to live outside. The mosquitos were really sucking your blood on Tuesday so on Weds I decided we would just stay inside with the air conditioning on full blast. It was ok. You practiced running laps around the island in my kitchen, and inpoired me to do the same. So today I calculated how many steps to circle the island and then the dining room table, the couch, upstairs to the massage table, the Pilates reformer back down around the couch, the dining table and then the island, like you. I love how you run on your tiptoes sometimes and i love running barefoot in the house. So now I have a running track, which I could expand to include the basement. It reminds me of the times I taught Kate at the Poor Clare's. Maybe you and I can go one day to visit her at her new place. And Gramma Joyce, too. Thank you so much for spending time with me. I love to see your faces: happy, bossy, sad, tired, silly, all of them!
Love, Nana