I’m having trouble doing things today. Can’t get interested in much other than watching CNN reports about the bombings in London. Have tried to switch to HGTV or something else to have on in the background while I finish painting, but keep going back to CNN. Need to get the painting finished–only have the ceiling in the family room left to do–but have lost a lot of my motivation. Oh, I’ll finish it today (the stacks of books everywhere are something I can’t live with much longer!), but just don’t feel as energized as I’ve been the past few days.

Things like this damn terrorist attack really make me reflect on what’s important in life…how lives can change in just a few minutes. Of course we must go on, not really letting all this get to us (’cause that’s what these assholes want), but it certainly is difficult not to be frightened as well as not consider changing plans and lifestyles. But we live in hope that we will be among the lucky who will not be among the targeted ones. And we go on. And we pray.