Filler, Spiller and Thriller

I hope this finds you deep in summer and enjoying all the ways summer has of giving us time, light, foods to nourish, and hopefully a bit of adventure thrown in here or there. It’s been almost 6 months since I last wrote and I am feeling 100%. Labs look pristine, am back to all my favorite activities like swimming, ballroom dance, bike riding etc. I continue to feel grateful to my many providers and my widest circle of loving people.

Surrounded here by our gardens and fruit trees and planters, I am leaning into the planter-gardening-concept of creating pots and window boxes with a filler, a spiller and a thriller. Feels like a perfect metaphor for life at this moment.

The filler is all the regular good stuff: cooking healthy food, dipping a toe into my work life (seeing patients, teaching, writing,) playing music, puttering in my art room, joining the irresistible wave of support for Kamala, and more.

The spiller is the social part, with enough vitality and pep to cover my basics, I have lots of energy for friends and family, cooking for people, caring for others, which is my happy place and let’s face it: my lifelong nature.

The thriller, not gonna to lie — is the new grand baby. Kudos to her parents forall the wonderful ways they are blossoming as devoted and loving parents. And for giving us the delicious chance to…