It had been many weeks since my friend and I took our biweekly walk, but we made time today to make sure we could get together, even for a short time. We met at Agassiz Rock in Manchester-by-the-Sea, a Trustees of the Reservation property with a delightful loop trail highlighted by gigantic boulders. (In 1874, a group of students named this site to honor Louis Agassiz, the Harvard University professor who first theorized that the rocks that dot New England's landscape were shaped and deposited by glaciers (and were not the result of Noah's flood, as popularly believed). As glaciers scoured the landscape, the mass of bedrock forming the hill proved more resistant than the surrounding soil, forcing the bottom of the glacier up and over the hill. The north side was smoothed and the south side left steep and rugged as the glacier broke off chunks of rock as it passed.)
Because she was on a tight schedule, we only walked for about 45 minutes, but we had *so* much to talk about and catch up about. It was amazing to see that even in the midst of a pandemic, life was still busy enough for us to each have lots of news to share, some good and some bad. I shared the delight of my baby chicks and the dismay of losing Midna. I shared the delight of playing music again, but the dismay at not being able to start teaching again yet. I shared the delight of running every day for 30 minutes with my new elliptical, but the dismay of gaining weight and having seriously high cholesterol (thanks to my genetics). It was delightful to have a sounding board for all my joys and concerns, and it was delightful to be hers as well. I hope that we don't wait as long as we did to do this again!
With delight,
♥Jamie
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