Thursdays

 

Thursday, Jan. 20

Thursday is a sandwiched day of the week, plopped between Hump Day and Thank God It’s Friday.  It’s a day where you gut it out and get ‘er done so that Friday can happen and then the weekend shines, filled with opportunity and choice.  This pattern of naming the weekdays probably had its origins when people actually worked nine to five and had weekends off.  “Banker’s hours.”  The nicknames remain but Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays have been transformed from “Ahhhh. Let’s go out to eat” to “Look, here’s an open space in the calendar.”   Parents become taxi drivers and cheerleaders.  Teachers read, plan and create.  Pastors lead, proclaim and bless.  Retailers fashion, show and sell.   Chefs and wait staff set, prepare and serve.  Maintenance crews are on call to salt, sand, and clear. Etc. Etc.

And then there’s Thursday.  The workhorse day.  The day that decisions are made, open spaces are filled, and satisfaction happens by sunset.

Wondering what you’re deciding today…what openings are filling…where you find satisfaction.

Our Thursday has found us in decision-making mode.  Turns out that Covid has closed Asia and Africa to our ship.  Oceania has called ahead to ports and decided the only course of action is to finish this “leg” of the voyage to Tahiti, then go East rather than to continue West, offering essentially three options to us passengers.  1) continue on the revised itinerary voyage (see photo) and arrive in New York as scheduled on July 4, 2) disembark in Tahiti, or 3) disembark in LA as we head toward the Caribbean, the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Baltic and beyond.  Each choice offers percentages of refunds and offers help with air travels and baggage transfer. 

Breathing.

We have decided that choice 1 is for us. It is bittersweet to give up the around-the-world moniker, but we are grateful for family and neighbors who continue to allow us to travel.  We love this opportunity for Jerry at his level of his Parkinson’s, we’re not gung-ho about returning to snow and deep freeze, and we choose to be positive and hopeful, knowing full well that this revised itinerary isn’t solid either.

In the meantime, I pray that your Thursday was filled with some surprises and lots of joy.

Stay healthy, dear friends and family.

The new route:



Comments

  1. JudyJanuary 22, 2022 at 9:55 AM

    Crap. Well....that whole Round the World thing never made much sense to me anyway....it is flat, after all.

    You are still on an incredible journey. Once in a lifetime for you. Bond with the dairy farmers and milk it for all it's worth. We are learning and growing through you!

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