Day 408: Relief

I’m in Panama City!

I wanted to show you an image of Panama City  —  a huge, gleaming, bustling, vibrant, fabulous and dazzling urban landscape —  but WordPress (or SOMETHING) is preventing this¹ from happening this morning.

It’s not MY fault, is what I’m trying to say.  So that’s a relief.

Panama City is white and shining, with surprising accents of colored illuminations.  That also describes a place of snow and ice, punctuated by lingering Christmas lights. But it’s not.  So that’s a relief.

From the comments I got on yesterday’s post, I know (1) there’s no pressure to post on my vacation and (2) people are happy to receive what I can give.  So that’s a relief.

My traveling companion, Peggy, tells me that the plane we’re taking today to Boquete may be a more familiar size than I expected.

I bet you thought I was going to write “So that’s a relief.”

Me, too.

However, I realize this: I am ready for anything, with no investment in the outcome, thanks to a lot of people.

That, to me, is the very definition of “relief.”

Well, I usually try to end my posts with some sort of visual punch, but that’s not a possibility today.

I know! I’ll ask for help.

Everybody, reading out there? Please, take a moment, and a breath.

What images come to your mind, in response to the word “relief”?

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Feel free to describe and share.

Thanks to everybody who has ever felt any kind of relief of any sort² and to you — of course! — for reading today.

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1 Other things that are slow or not working at all, here in WordPress/Panama City: my usual way of creating a new post, adding links to previous posts, adding tags, and saving post drafts. I will be very surprised if this post publishes this morning. But you know what? That’s okay. (Pssst! It’s another relief!)

2 One of my more blatant attempts to include EVERYBODY in my expressions of gratitude, don’t you think?