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Gratitude Challenge Day 17: Seasons

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I kind of wish the topic was seasonings. That’d be more interesting, but alas, here we are. Really, it feels pretty duplicative with “time,” “weather,” and “change,” which I’ve already done, but I’ll do my best to differentiate.

Walla Walla gets all four seasons and for that I’m mostly glad. I really like spring, most of summer, and the first 3/4 of fall. Winter is rough. We’ve been over this. I won’t continue to beat this dead horse, even though that’s what winter in Walla Walla can smell like, but no, I’m focusing on gratitude and seasons. FOCUS, Becci, FOCUS! I do like the change of seasons and what each has to offer–even winter when I come inside and cozy up, reading, baking, and planning the garden. It’s not all bad, truly.

I also appreciate the more metaphorical notion of seasons. We have periods of our lives that are a certain way, but they don’t last, and this is good. This can be heartbreaking, relief-giving, sometimes both, even. I could quote Solomon, but I’ll let The Byrds do it instead…

Beer, Trees, and Bryan

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I’ve set up an event on Facebook, but I realize there are those who aren’t local or don’t use that platform that might want to know. Mary and I were chatting a while back trying to think of a new way to celebrate Bryan. We thought of Bryan’s love for trees and decided to do a little something on Arbor Day–Friday, April 26th.

With that in mind, we’ve decided to invite folks to join us out at Quirk https://www.quirkbrewing.com/ a local brewery in Walla Walla starting at 6pm and going until at least 8pm. Buy yourself a beer or dinner at Agapas, gather with friends and loved ones to share stories and memories of Bryan, raise a glass with us. And if you’d like to, join us in donating to the Scribner Fund for Walla Walla Trees which aids in the City of Walla Walla’s care, maintenance and replacement of our urban forest, a project near and dear to Bryan’s heart.

If you’re out of town and can’t make it, maybe carve a little time out of your Arbor Day evening to raise a glass of beer (or whatever suits you) and toast Bryan and his memory. You can donate to the Scribner Fund for Walla Walla Trees here: https://bmcf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=1407 or you could donate to something similar in your own community in support of trees.

Gathering in community, conversing, debating, laughing, asking probing questions–these were some of Bryan’s favorite things. Let’s do them still for him.