It’s All Good!

Except for the fact that I am unbelievably exhausted this morning — things here are all looking good.

On the kitten front —

The calico kitten opened her other eye all the way. It’s looking like it might work out just fine.

AND — Little Blackie has started to encourage the kittens to leave the little playpen today, and guess who was the first one to get itself out and start (slowly) exploring???

Yes, the little grey kitten that only has two legs! Well, two regular legs in front, and 2 little stumps for the back legs.

That made me feel so happy, gang. What a little trooper that one is going to be.

Here they are, all of them having managed to get up and over the little barrier thingie, to be with mom.

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Yesterday’s outing to the restaurant at the golf club with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client was far more successful than I had anticipated.

He LOVED it, gang. For one thing, he could not get over the view!!

We sat at a table where he got the complete panorama throughout lunch, and several times he said, in awe, “This is paradise.”

And he loved the architecture of the building, as well. And it turns out the food was really, really good. We both had (huge) salads that tasted like they came straight from the farm. So fresh.

And he got to have ONE vodka martini, straight up, with extra olives. (The same way that I used to drink martinis in the old days, of course… we’re like weird twins, or something, separated by 30 years and many continents.)

And since 80% of the trip there and back was on backroads and through small villages, surrounded by hills and trees — he just had the most incredible time, looking at everything.

As I was leaving his house yesterday, he stood in the kitchen to tell me goodbye and he said, “Today was outstanding.”

Plus, he was very aware that it was Good Friday. He studied for the Methodist Ministry when he was in his early 20s, so Christianity is a big deal for him, too.

Oh, and I forgot! When I got to his house yesterday morning, he was up and dressed, with his bed made. He was in the living room watching TV. When I went in to say good morning, I said, “Do you remember that we’re going out to lunch today?’

With a big smile, he said, “YES!” He couldn’t remember where, but he was just having a real day of clarity yesterday. It was wonderful.

And now I gotta head back over, so I gotta scoot.

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Oh, I started watching this film last night on Metrograph, but I still have 45 minutes left to watch, so I won’t say much about it until it’s over. But it’s another incredible one from Tsai Ming-liang. This time from 2020 — “Days“.