Baked Mac and Cheese ala Alton

 

"The Longest Blip of Time"

 

The USPS Package

Every day, it seems I read or hear someone mentioning how slow the USPS is right now. Whether it's a news article about the slow deliveries of medications and bills, or when you go to send a package in the mail, or a mention of the current, problematic, USPS board.

So, I took it in stride, when I went to mail a small package on Monday, yet disappointed to hear it might take 4 days to arrive. Over the course of the pandemic, I've sent four to five packages, and all have arrived quickly. 

The following day, I entered the tracking number, and received a message saying it had not been entered into their system yet. I tried again, later in the day, and that's when I discovered I had made a mistake entering the number. But guess what? That package had already been delivered. Woohoo! What experiences have you all had?

Love, K

Smithereens

Saturated limbs,

embracing the sky.

Carpeted, covered, encased,

in thick, lush, sodden, moss.

Flowers of lichen,

catching their rain share.

Then ice rained down

upon our tree town.

Then again.

"Stay strong!"

"Hold on until the sun rises!"

Messages sent

via crown and root.

Crashes, booms, thuds, cracks

Old soldiers uprooted.

Young hybrids, topped,

toppled, sheared, eviscerated,

delimbed, trashed, 

SMITHEREENS

Soon, we'll welcome the Spring

the healing, mending, scarring,

regrowth and rotting.

Then we'll honor and feed,

the survivors,

by burying the dead.

~KGM 03/03/2021

March On!