Suncha Kim, 69, was one of the victims of the Atlanta spa shootings. She was a mother of two and grandmother of three. . .

Family members said she was given the President’s Volunteer Service Award during President Barack Obama’s term for the volunteer work she did in the D.C. area to help feed the homeless. . .

One of Kim’s children called on Biden and lawmakers to help ensure justice and charge Robert Aaron Long - the 21-year-old White man facing murder charges in the shootings — with a hate crime: “Please stand up for us. We beg that you do not allow the death of my mother and the death of all victims of hate crimes to die in vain.”

~ Washington Post

By the brook this morning, I found the beaded fern to be the element that drew my eye and my spirit. It was warm and soon turned very sunny––even hot, in the yard. I stayed out to do yard work. Dragging broken branches from winter storms into piles. While I worked I listened to an audible recording of the novel Adam Bede by George Eliot, her first novel. And it made the time fly. I’ve read the Mill on the Floss a couple of times, and Middlemarch a couple of times, but this is my first time with Adam Bede. Plenty of listening hours to go while the yard is raked and the driveway cleaned up and the gardens are freshened. My daughter got her first vaccination today; I qualify to make my appointment tomorrow!