I am busy with two other blogs now, but I can pass the content along right here. I've been testing Chrome, the new browser from Google. 

I stepped outside my home office, into my front yard today. My head was swirling with the things I still had to do. My two year old son came outside, too. I looked up and witnessed birds "sailing", soaring, or gliding, whatever it is that they do. It was a moment of peace. Even now, husband calls, urging me to go to bed and get some rest.

I've never seen those birds behave that way over my house. Usually there is a flock of geese, all going one direction in formation. Occasionally a crow caws his superiority over the other residents of the neighborhood. But these birds; there were over ten of them, all different types, were riding some current, making circles and doing acrobatic-like moves.

It was a moment of peace.

I said, "Look, see the birds!" to my son. He looked up and became as transfixed as I was.

One minute, one minute and a half passed

Then we went inside to begin cooking dinner. And helping the older one with homework. And this, and that, and this...and now I hear the call, "Stop now! Time for bed..." But I didn't get to finish!

Thanks to Meenakshi for pointing out this web site and the fact that Mercury has gone into Retrograde. I had asked her, "Retro-what?" because I don't normally follow astrology. http://www.astrologycom.com/mercret.html

Mercury retrograde gives rise to personal misunderstandings; flawed, disrupted, or delayed communications, negotiations and trade; glitches and breakdowns with phones, computers, cars, buses, and trains. And all of these problems usually arise because some crucial piece of information, or component, has gone astray or awry.

It is therefore not wise to make important decisions while Mercury is retrograde, since it is very likely that these decisions will be clouded by misinformation, poor communication and careless thinking. Mercury is all about mental clarity and the power of the mind, so when Mercury is retrograde these intellectual characteristics tend to be less acute than usual, as the critical faculties are dimmed. Make sure you pay attention to the small print!

No wonder I'm not blogging these days! Yesterday was the day the retrograde started, and I began looking for my purse in the morning because I needed to accompany an older stepson to court. Both my personal cell phone and the business cell phone, and my ID were in that purse, and it had gone missing! I went to court without it and it turned out I never needed my ID anyway. 

I had taken a dance class the night before, and that must be where my purse was! I called the studio at 10 am, and left a message. Their web site said classes don't start until 4:30. Geez, my life is locked in that studio! My business cell phone, wallet, checkbook, etc. I called again at 4 pm and she answered, "yes, I have your purse, and I tried to call you last night after I looked you up in the white pages but nobody answered." (yeah, that would be because nobody answers the phone at home because it's a fax line.) There were 15 missed calls on the business cell that was trapped in my purse, but most of those were me calling myself hoping against hope that I would find my purse under the couch. I couldn't check messages because the cell phone company suspended us....embarrassing.

So I think maybe I better start paying attention to astrology. I can blame it all on the stars.

Later that night, husband and I entered a conversation that ended up being an argument over issues long buried. That rarely happens with us these days. I had thought our arguing days were over! "But everybody has blood," husband says, "and sometimes our blood boils."