1. My voice is coming back now after a treacherous bout of laryngitis. I’m especially thankful for this, especially as I have to sing a solo on our interactive presentation of my song “Ode to the Universe” from my musical Eden in Babylon.
2. The thunderstorm two days ago was a deterrent to exercise, but a brisk five mile walk yesterday beat most of the heavy wind and rain. Great five miles to Staples & back to get a mouse, stopping only at the café for doppio. Winds are only 5mph in light rain and I’m about to go on a run in the sunset. Thankful–and somewhat amazed–that I can still do it.
3. Grateful to have finally landed on a definite plan on the presentation. All I gotta do is stay on the even keel, and it will show consistency to the Kids — and they’ll come through. Bowen is confidently turning in a great part, Maria emailed me to get together to practice in real-time, and I just heard from Richard, who want to jam at my house later in the week. It’s not as though the Kids are not into it. I just somehow have to rise to the occasion in ways that have challenged my comfort zone. I’m getting the hang of it now, though — I can tell.
4. There are a number of similar things that I’ve been doing differently since sheltering in place. Allow me to enumerate:
(1) I’m reading a lot more, especially news articles and scientific or psychological articles. Up to 15 or 20 per day, I who didn’t think he could read.
(2) I’m listening to the music of others, having finally tuned into Spotify for a free three-month Premium account. It’s great to have music in the background, something that usually wouldn’t have crossed my mind. (I’m planning to do the same thing with movies, like with Netflix maybe. It never crosses my mind to watch movies either, but it would enhance the quality of life.)
(3) Purged and cleaned the Lenovo desktop, and now the desktop is organized for optimal use.
(4) There’s a variety of different kinds of foods in the cupboard and fridge. This is similar to the variety of different kinds of music I’ve been listening to..
(5) I’ve been cleaning up my website, making everything simpler and easier to access, and less confusing.
(6) Rather than keep hiding the ASUS laptop with the broken screen, keyboard and touch pad in the dresser drawer, I now have it all set up in the bedroom with external keyboard, monitor, and new external mouse! I even got a wireless mouse since I will never remove the ASUS from the house and can always keep the plug in the port. So now I have two computers at home, one that I can carry with me outside, and one that stays.
(7) In order to make room for the ASUS, I finally removed the big bookshelf that was such an eyesore in the bedroom, and all its shelves. It was right in front of a power outlet anyway, and that’s the logical place for the other computer. I’ve got two other dressers and another set of shelves anyway. Bedroom looks great now! I even made the bed.
(Anyone who knows me knows that ordinarily I would have never done any of those things, but would have continued to reduce the quality of my dwelling space to that of a largely unattended “crash pad.” Sheltering in place has brought out the better part of me.)
5. There’s is a light rain outside my window, I got my work cut out for me, I don’t have any interfering appetites, and I’m eager to run in the rain. After that, I’ll come back into my house and feel grateful to be inside, and out of the rain. Come to think of it, I can’t lose.
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
— Albert Einstein
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