March Towards Lent

 

The Lenten season is almost upon us!

Today is Shrove Tuesday (pancake supper, y'all!), and tomorrow is Ash Wednesday.

And then Lent goes on for forty days(does not include Sundays)*. Forty nights too, probably, but I haven't added it up.

Easter Sunday is April 17. It's the first year in a long time where I won't be subsumed by tax season. I also will be free for Alison's Spring Break in early April. I also am looking forward to April for another reason that is so major that it is hard for me to keep under wraps!

Lent also means giving up things and adding some others.

What are we adding? We read (I read it aloud) a devotional from Forward Day by Day each morning. We will also start Inquirer's class at Grace, a refresher course for us about the history and meaning of the Episcopalian church.

What am I subtracting? I am reducing my social imprint, particularly on Facebook. I will only post my Song of the Day, polls for Polls R Us, and posting my blog stories. I will not post memes or pictures or what I ate for breakfast (this morning was Kashi Go! Keto Cinnamon Cereal). I will not engage in commentary or likes, or any response.

This is more difficult than it sounds because I don't really have any close friends anymore. I don't see people from work. I'm not in a play. I love my church family, but I would be hard-pressed to call any of them close and/or best friends. I am not in touch with anyone from any other place I lived, nor anyone I went to college with. My high school contacts are all from Facebook.  

Between not working and COVID, my introverted tendencies have taken ascendancy. For the most part, I am okay with that. I am introverted, after all.

Now that my comic book project is complete (except for its selling), I hope to return to more writing and blogging.

 If you would like me to email you my new blog stories, I can do that. Just message or text me your email address. I will still monitor Messenger, although I will not initiate any conversations. So if you want some blog posts but not others, let me know. If you want the personal stuff, but not the anti-Trump stuff, I can do that. If you want the political stuff but not the stuff about what I had for breakfast (Kashi Go!...wait, I already told you that...my bad), I can do that.

Until next time,

T. M. Strait

God bless and protect the Ukrainian people!

*lent is March 2nd through April 14th (three days before Easter).  I'm not sure why.  Let me take that Inquirer's class and I'll get back to you.