Learned: Santa Rosa, Napa, Sonoma on fire for a couple of days now. Much already burned away. Camp Newman gone. I say I like endings, didn’t mean to this level. The President is likely suffering from a combination of mental deficiencies and personality disorders that make him not just unfit, but dangerous in his current position. I like a show called “The Leftovers” of which I’d never heard. I do a good job on presentations.
3. Shelves. Ability to be with bad news after initial amygdala hijack. New Whey Liquid Protein. 3.
Seems: Like empowered context/invented life will be confronted/confronting, but probably still beats the alternative. Like the “taking my life back” game will need to be revised and replayed. Like a lot of the #resistance people on twitter might have had previous accounts, but made new ones just to say terrible things about political figures.
New Habit(s): (I now have to fill this in every day to see what sticks) Breathe. Only not too deeply if the air is full of smoke. Be super kind.
Accomplished: Read “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” by Bandy X. Lee — yep, he cray. Short bookshelf installed in bdrm, can get a few more loose items stowed where VCR/DVD/ancient stack ‘o tech & 15 yo dust was. Broke down boxes. Retrieved prescriptions. Sent in photos of spoiled tart cherry concentrate, replacement method devised. Wrote several notes to @realDonaldTrump that I’m sure very few people read.
Thinking about: Walking, and making other muscles sore habitually. The possibility of being courageous, radical and confronting, and the outcome is that humanity has the difficult conversations that transform us into the human race we long to be. Important: distinguish between the profound needs of the soul and a passing fancy.
Q: Imagine you have three weeks coming up where you will shut off your current life and do things just for fun and joy – no working! What comes to mind?
My Answer to yesterday’s: The angle of the sunlight and the way the colors change. Kids back in school. Soup and salad. Sweaters, I used to say, but now I only have one and never wear it. October is a good feeling. In my current phase, it feels like a well-deserved winding down.
Video: https://vimeo.com/159875640
Reading: “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi, and “A Wall Between” by Anne Braden
“How we go, IT goes.”