I thought of a new hobby i can get into now that all my usual hobbies are failing me: church! God! There's a large charming pretty Church i like downtown and it will be the first place i will go once the mask mandate is up at the end of the month. It's very progressive with groups for all the new sexual orientations and genders. It's always got a very pretty altar with sculptures made of lengths of fabric and ornaments. It's got a women's center with a free weekday lunch program that i attended when i had tough times in my early thirties.

Church is familiar as i was raised with it and it's a comforting experience so hopefully i will be able to tolerate it. I have so many fun memories of church with my little sister. I love the hymns and like to sing and there's usually a couple instruments and the rituals and the prayers are like poems to me and it's a tame way of socializing. It's sedentary tho getting there might be harder now that we have our new subway, i'll just have to see. The whole mass is participatory art, i feel. It's a great time of year with Easter coming up next month!

It's a mild overcast day, well above freezing, tho very soggy. The sun peeked out and called to me so i got my dog outside and even walked her for the first time this year. I chatted with a neighbor as delighted with the day as i was. The snowmelt was actually streaming off the roofs, sparkling in the sun!