Today is National Pen Pal Day and I've been doing a good job of keeping up with my pen pals. Some are more f un to write to than others, but after a couple of years there are a few who are beginning to sound like friends.
Oddly enough, one of my favorites is a guy named Jeremy. When I started trying to find pen pals, the one thing I did not want was a male pen pal. But I saw t hat he wrote something somewhere about weird things he had received and I wrote and told him about the time I had a potato sent to my friend Ann MacNab (founder of The Lamplighters). We started corresponding The nice thing about Jeremy is that he has made it a task to answer letters the day he receives them. And I started doing the same thing with his letters. Even if I have several older letters here, when I get one from Jeremy, I answer it immediately. He's the guy who adopted a child from Kazakhstan, who was about 9 when we started corresponding. I was so impressed with him as a father...and then, unexpectedly, the son died. They went to wake him up in the morning and found him dead. Doctors discovered he had some sort of congenital condition that they didn't now about. I think Jeremy and I became better friends because we could discuss grief.
One of the things that is difficult when you lose a child is that everyone is afraid to talk with you about it because they don't want to upset you. But they don't realize that talking about the child who died kind of keeps him "alive" for a bit. Yeah, you might cry, but that's good too. So I wanted to be sure to let Jeremy know how I felt as a mother with dead children and let him know he could talk with me about his son.
So I wrote to Jeremy today and to a couple of other people. I probably have one more letter in me before the end of the afternoon.
The other thing I did was to complete SwapBot Swap. It was to let people know whatyou watched on TV in the month of May. Well, that was very easy for me to do because I've been keeping snippets of TV shows I watch every day on 1 Second Every Day, so I just had to go through all the entries I posted on 1SE. This is what I posted:
This was a great Swap for me to do. I’ve been keeping track of everything I watch this year, so these are the things that I saw in the month of May (does not include game shows, news programs, and shows on the Food Network). With the exception of "The Last Thing He Told Me" all of these were on regular TV stations.
MOVIESKramer vs Kramer https://youtu.be/KZfIl9isKLU
Reacher https://youtu.be/GSycMV-_Csw
The Singing Nun https://youtu.be/CBVkj0787HI
Stan and Ollie https://youtu.be/MdcBNrjc3wo
The Fabelmans https://youtu.be/D1G2iLSzOe8
Paulie https://youtu.be/dA1BQmK7UAg
A Man Called Otto https://www.ganjing.com/
TV Series
Prisoners of the Snow https://youtu.be/3kYG6hq9IKc
A Small Light https://youtu.be/nsuk8ThvnpM
The Last Thing He Told Me https://youtu.be/9TIZZhFOY6E
DOCUMENTARIES
Walking with Elephants https://youtu.be/tuMgJrFoAFY
TV Favorite Comediennes (No Link)
Still (Michael J. Fox) https://youtu.be/yHgMSR4F1Ak
Call Me Kate (No link)
MISC
Miriam and Alan Lost in Scotland https://youtu.be/JcuiPDxSaYo
Miriam Margolyes Almost Australian https://youtu.be/zaX_kaFA_cs
Coronation of King Charles
Memorial Day Concert
The Preakness horse race
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
No way I could ever do anything like this!
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