Yes! It’s another gloomy day here in the Hinterlands! You know how much I love that. However —
Yesterday, gang, was a really interesting day for me.
First off, Peitor and I continue to get some really keen interest in our TV Pilot and series proposal, stemming from Series Mania in France a couple weeks back.
We still have a lot of work to do on revising the script — we’ve mapped it all out, we just need to actually format it into scenes and put it in the script. But we are both seriously energized about the interest we’re getting.
I have FOUR (!!) days off from caregiving this coming week. One day will be set aside to drive down and visit my dad’s grave. Half a day will be set aside for practicing at the shooting range (apparently spending spiritual time with my other dad — my birth father — whose heavenly birthday is tomorrow, btw. He would have been 80 !!! I cannot process this. He is eternally about 43 in my mind.)
Anyway, the rest of the time off will be spent on the script. (Oh, and looking after newborn kittens!!)
(Oh, and guess who kept walking back & forth past my kitchen porch yesterday, checking out the little straw-filled cat houses? The little girls from next door!!!! I know they are trying to find the kittens!!!!! (Who are here inside with me now.) Here’s hoping, though, that their mom will let them adopt at least one!!)
Okay, anyway. I digress.
So the reason yesterday was so interesting for me — I had a conversation with the woman who cleans house for the clients I was with yesterday. We talked about a lot of things — mostly Medicare, insurance in general, her grown kids & their lives, the scary health situations with most of my clients.
And I came away from that realizing that I have a really incredible life.
Even on my limited income these days, I still own my own home with a very low mortgage, I lease a brand new Honda that NEVER breaks down, I am really seriously healthy, my debts are manageable now, I live in a village that is peaceful, quiet, safe, with about zippo crime. I have had a wonderful career (and it isn’t over yet), and I somehow managed to get the most amazing insurance guy who has made the whole Medicare thing a truly affordable breeze for me.
I’m usually so focused on making sure the bills are paid, feeding 729 cats, getting to all my various clients on time, not feeling emotionally drained by the time I get home, etc., that I haven’t stepped back and gotten a broad view of my life, in general, for quite a while — and now, compared to the average person in the next county.
Wow.
But on that happy note — I gotta scoot. Another day awaits with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client!! And who knows what sorts of jaw-dropping coincidences will be revealed today?! We shall soon find out.
Okay!!
Enjoy your Friday, wherever you are in the world, gang.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!!
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Here’s this!! The countdown to Good Friday and Easter continues!!
James Tabor – Last Days of Jesus Pt 2–What Got Him Killed? (8 mins):
Marilyn's Room 
So glad for your life situation and your realization of it, with such gratitude (a vital spiritual posture!). I feel very similarly, while battling my frustration over a couple seemingly “limiting” factors. But who are we to properly know the real bigger picture? (I’m a kinda “Christian Buddhist” that way. And wish I felt more time freedom to follow Tabor closer… love that guy and his work, among many NT era scholars!)
As to Xi and the CCP, I so far doubt there’s much divergence, though apparently he’s really got the control he desires. But this on the tariffs, regardless, says to me, yet again, that Trump’s tariff approach is just nutzo, and VERY harmful!):
[“The U.S.’ arbitrary imposition of abnormally high tariffs on China seriously violates international economic and trade rules, disregards the post-World War II global economic order built by the U.S. itself, and violates basic economic laws and common sense,” a statement put out by China’s Commerce Ministry announcing the tariffs said.]