Angelina's Garden

Slice of Life 2020: Day 1

Today is March 1, a day of official beginnings and endings.

• Its the last day before Great Lent
• Its the first day of the 2020 March Slice of Life Story Contest where I write every day for 31 days with several hundred friends over at TwoWritingTeachers.org.
• Its the first warm day where the sun came out and it didn’t rain
• Its the last Sunday before Daylight Savings Time begins
• Its the beginning of the spring sports and marching band season
• Its the first day of the rest of my life!

All these beginnings and endings make it possible to make sense of a long chain of days, weeks, months and years, just the way looking through a window pane provides a reference point to what we’re viewing outside.

This year with Slice of Life I’m just jumping in. I don’t know where all this writing will take me or if I’ll even finish. But, its here and I’m in for the adventure and the excitement. I’ll be writing from a place of gratitude about my life, which at the moment happens to be pretty full and wonderful.

• There’s a daughter’s fall wedding to plan
• I’ve started a side hustle with my oldest son that’s getting off the ground
• Two writing classes keep me busy
• Three kids at home keep me cooking & cleaning
• Lent begins tomorrow and there’s much spiritual work to do
• There’s a baseball player in the house
• There’s a marching band student in the house
• There’s a wonderful husband in the house
• There are service projects to plan and a bookstore at my church to run
• There are photographs to take and edit

I’ll be writing on all of this and more. Come join me for the ride.