Honestly, some day soon — I hope — I will be able to post to the blog all the details of everything that is just getting off-the-charts amazing around here! The news from Peitor yesterday about our TV project blew my mind!

And I’m really having to start to face the fact that I might not have a free moment of downtime for the next three years…

But in the meantime, all I can say is that I need WAY MORE than one day off a week… sadly, that’s all I’m getting this week, anyway.

So, I do have today off but today is all about typing my wee bonny fingers off.

Still, I don’t have to leave the house. Don’t have to drive to town. And it’s a beautiful holiday weekend around here, so I’ll take all the little perks I can get today.

And even though tomorrow is a national holiday, and even though I usually have Mondays off–

ME (thinking): No need to specifically request to have the holiday off, because Monday is my day off anyway.

AGENCY: “She didn’t specifically request to have the holiday off, like EVERYBODY ELSE did, so let’s just dump everybody else’s shifts on to her!”

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So, yes, the week ahead of me is going to be intense. But I am trying to find ways to just keep on moving forward.

Work, write. Work, write. Work, write. Repeat.

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Okay.

From James Tabor — and even though I am a member of his special research group, I was not on the zoom call yesterday because:

A. I had to work

B. I had to work

C. I had to work

D. All of the above

[The correct answer is, of course, B. I had to work.}

Is the Jesus Story Modeled after a Typical Hellenistic Divine Man Matrix (46 mins):

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And as you can see, I really have nothing serious to post about today!! And I probably should get focused on the revisions of the play that Sandra has been waiting on for, I don’t know, something like 5 days.

Then, of course, back to Episode 2 of the TV series project.

And if I am at all coherent this evening (I’m hoping I will be!!), I’m planning to re-watch this for the first time in about 40 years!! I just bought it on Amazon Prime.

I first saw this film in high school, when I was about 16 (less than a year after I was released from the mental hospital, which was probably the most precarious year of my existence). I was taking a class in filmmaking and we were studying the French New Wave. This film blew me away, gang, and sort of changed my life forever. After this, I saw every film Truffaut made. I have seen this film numerous times, but it’s been a long time since I last saw it.

The 400 Blows (1959)

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And on that note, I better scoot!! The evening will be here before we know it!!

Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!

If you recall, not too long ago, I played this song for my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man. He had never heard it before and he loved it. Now, he asks me to play it at least once every time we are together.

Yesterday was no different. I played it for him on my phone, while we sat out on his back deck, surrounded by hundreds of green trees, flowers, many birds, some squirrels & chipmunks, a deer, and a big beautiful blue sky.

Louis Armstrong, “What A Wonderful World”. Enjoy, gang.