Activity, then, must be one of the blessings that this Lent is bringing to me.  It is bringing me closer to God, to my friends and family.  It should help to prepare me physically for upcoming Spring season.  I should begin new projects during these forty days.  And I expect that I will refocus on past interests: painting, poetry, crochet…  And, thus, I guess this Lent is renewing me, I am being reborn…like a rose whose petals are beginning to open.  It holds great promise.   I may not be able to reverse the dementia, but I don’t have to lay down and die, either…

Who would have ever thought that giving up TV from 9 AM to 3 PM could have such abounding effects?  God bless you all, my friends.