Chat Tuesday: Puzzle and unpuzzle.

Photo by Thomas Couillard on Unsplash

So here’s what I was going to tell you today. I was going to tell you about the puzzle I finished, a cacophony of birds and flowers in luridly happy colors.

I was going to tell you how that puzzle sat and and sat, a mess of discordant supersaturated hues, since before my mom got sick, I think. Maybe since the pandemic. Certainly as the last year unfolded, one unpleasant surprise after the last, the…