Saturday, August 18, 2018 (Alanday, Aquarius 24, 0031)<\/p>\n
From: Penny Castle
\nSubject: Crazy with loneliness
\nDate: August 18, 2018 10:04 a.m.
\nTo: Thomas Castle<\/p>\n
(CLT): 1 min 48.53 sec<\/p>\n
Darling Thomas,<\/p>\n
It’s been a long week… very, very long. You know how days can be for someone working with budgets, funding issues, scads of deadlines, and so many more issues than I want to get into right now. We’re just starting on the next fiscal year and my head is already hurting. Still trying to find rooms for some of the classes, don’t have instructors for all of them, their letters of offer are waiting to be mailed, and so on. AARGH!!.. (OK, that’s a smidgen better)<\/p>\n
You always made me feel so much better when I came home all stressed out and tired. Actually, we made each other feel better after a bad day. But, my hubby is not here and I am lost and very lonely a lot of the time. You’re always saying to me ‘a penny for your thoughts.’ Well, my thoughts are of you on this particular Saturday morning. It’s now over three months since we’ve held each other. I miss you so much I could almost cry (or at least sniffle a little). The last time we spent any alone time together, was when we went to the cabin in Colorado for a three day weekend.<\/p>\n
Remember the delicate spring colors and the dusting of snow around the edges of the yard? How the hot tub steamed in the cold air? We took a long drive around the winding mountain roads and had our own private tour, taking in the budding trees and spring flowers. I’ve never forgotten and would like to relive some of that wonderfully romantic time we had together, and pretend you are near.<\/p>\n
So, I’ve penciled in some vacation time, booked a flight to Denver for Friday afternoon, and am taking the laptop and camera along with me to the cabin. I’ll be up there for a week or so and send you a video. I’m going to shoot the cabin, the trees, mountains, streams, and everything else that will remind me of you (and you of me) and our time together that wonderful weekend. I’ll even take videos of the local wildlife (including me). Only, this nature film is for your private viewing, only. I just want to imagine you as close to me now, as we were then. It’s so hard to cope with you being gone. Sometimes I am not sure how to get through the day.<\/p>\n
Missing you so much it hurts,<\/p>\n
SWAK
\nYour Bright Penny<\/p>\n
< ≡ ♂ ≡ ><\/p>\n
(From Dr. Willis to Commander Lewis: Penny Castle appears to be suffering some major separation anxiety due to being apart from Tom. Appears to show the beginnings of depression. She is scheduling a trip to their cabin in Colorado, which will help, but I am advising counseling. I recommend contacting her family doctor.)<\/p>\n
Of course, Tom and Penny’s idea of a cabin is only a little short of a luxury ski lodge. With one phone call before leaving for the airport, their good friends and neighbors, Ben and Cassie, would head on up the road to the cabin, flip on the main breaker, set the thermostat to 70°, plow the drive, shovel and salt as needed, and switch on the front porch light. The hot tub on the back patio would be bubbling; a bottle of wine set out to chill in the snow bank next to it, so Tom and Penny could watch the stars twinkling over the mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saturday, August 18, 2018 (Alanday, Aquarius 24, 0031) From: Penny Castle Subject: Crazy with loneliness Date: August 18, 2018 10:04 a.m. To: Thomas Castle (CLT): 1 min 48.53 sec Darling Thomas, It’s been a long week… very, very long. You know how days can be for someone working with budgets, funding issues, scads of deadlines, and so many more issues …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emailfrommars.com\/outbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}