This week a calendar for 2024 arrives in my mailbox.  It’s from The Nature Conservancy.  I understand their need for money to preserve our natural areas, and yet, immersed as I am in the past right now with memories ripening like fruit, I feel a calendar from the 1950’s would be more appropriate for me and there’s this quote from Charlotte Joko Beck:

Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.