If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?
I just had to respond, even if I’ve answered this before. I’d be Supergirl. Yep. Kara Zor-El of Argo City. I don’t think I’d be the one from any recent movies. I’d be Legion of Superheroes Kara from 1970s and 1980s DC Comics. I like that she’s smart but imperfect.
She was always my favorite. My next-door neighbor Sandra Purvis and I spent hours and hours of our childhood running around in our neighborhood wearing towels as capes, pretending to be Supergirl and Phantom Girl. It was a great way to escape from our daily lives and pretend we were dating dashing teen boy Superheroes. She and I both spent a LOT of time in our imaginations.
Later on Anita and I were just as enamored of our Legion friends, though there was more script writing and less pretend play.
Here in the modern world I escape by hanging out in the outdoors, surrounding myself with dogs, as well as playing with pens and nail polish. Hmm. I also did that as a teen.
I’m feeling better, a bit, so after birding a bit, I did some cleanup around the porches of our house and threw some stuff away. I felt so powerful just making myself do something useful. There’s so much more to do, but I can tell I did something. The big cleanup will wait until it cools off. Besides, there were mosquitoes after me.
I also made a happy discovery. Lee had bought some boxes to store old photos in. Meanwhile, I had been searching for better Color Street nail polish strip storage but finding nothing. I brought a polish package upstairs just to check, and lo and behold, it fit in the box. I didn’t need the little individual storage boxes, I thought. Then I realized I could use them to store the smaller packages that bonus sets come in. I felt like Super Suna for figuring that out. I’d been dissatisfied with my storage a long time.
I guess it doesn’t take much to force a little self esteem back. I shall keep on trying!
PS: Wood Storks flew over the house last night. My yearly migration sighting!
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You were such a FUN kid – and the images of you and your pal were great.
Bird update from here: I was grateful to find an article about what hummingbirds do the week before they migrate. My were almost swarming the feeder, since the alpha male migrated earlier. And then one day – almost none. I seem to have 2 of the early spring juvenile males – dark spots beginning to show where the red will come later, and trying to be dominant. One will sit for what seems like a long time at the feeder. I worry that they’re left behind…. The cicadas are finally quiet – and so are the birds.
You’ve opened windows to birding for me. Thanks.
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