This will probably be brief because I am not feeling particularly chipper today.

I’m heading back to see my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man today, and his family is still there.

I have no idea what I will find when I get there.

I’m planning to just make him his coffee and breakfast and then get him out of there — to Geller Park. We haven’t been there in a few months and he really likes it there. So we’ll see.

Oddly enough, this is the exact bench where we usually sit! It has a great view of the Vietnam War Memorial up on the hill.

Obviously, I have no say or control over anything that is going on now. I’m hired to be his companion. That’s it. (And that is actually quite huge.)

But what is also bothering me is that his private nurse is siding with the family and she’s kind of in denial about what the family is putting him through.

And he knows that, too. He now says to me: “You are the only one. You are all I have.”

It is truly heartbreaking, gang.

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Anyway.

I actually did not get any writing done at all yesterday.

When I got back from my doctor’s appointment, I watched a little bit of that “James, Brother of Jesus” DVD that arrived Wednesday–

And while I was watching it, Valerie in Brooklyn called!

We really needed to catch up, so I was on the phone with her up until it was time for dinner.

So I didn’t even do yoga yesterday.

It was sort of an intense day for me, emotionally.

And now, on we go.

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Well! This just came through and cheered me!

Wayne, just texted me. He is in Maryland, at a Cracker Barrel, having breakfast!! (He’s visiting family and they’re doing what they do best — going out and shooting guns!)

Okay.

Enjoy your Friday, gang, wherever you are in the world. Make the very most of it. There is still a lot of joy to be found, just by being aware of right now.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Driving to town music!!

If you’ve read my post from yesterday, then I probably don’t even have to explain.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers perform “So You Want to Be A Rock & Roll Star,” live. 1985. Enjoy, gang.