Staggering into Normalville

I used to think I knew what busy was. Heh.

At some point I'll perhaps describe in a very general way what the ever-growing mountain of tasks has looked and felt like. In general the priority has to be direct care of kids during a particularly hard time. A concurrent priority is to accomplish all the bureaucratic tasking required to ensure the best possible ongoing lives for the kids. That's where the ever growing mountain springs from -- the bureaucratic state. You really can't imagine the immense wrongness of 2020 'murka unless you have to navigate through that place. It is honestly the antithesis of the shining ideas and ideals of the United States of America.

Tough sledding. But there are good and sufficient reasons to do it and do it correctly.

Allie's sister and the little ones.



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I also used to think that God sometimes gave me hard stuff to test me. Now I know for certain that I was mistaken. Hard stuff is just part of livin' stuff. The things that God is doing through me are miracles.

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Why do I do a "good deed?" More importantly, why did I make a video of the good deed? Is it simply a selfish man patting himself on the back? It's important for me to ask such questions and work hard to find answers.



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Baked bread for the family today. This is all I captured of the process!



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I took some time to work on washing clothes. Allie's clothes. It's a hard chore but it must be done. With our recent move, living life, and then her passing, there is a lot of clothes to wash. Clothes loved Allie and she gave a lot of them a home.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Dead?

Nope. Comfortable.

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Yesterday is gone and tomorrow isn't here or even assured. We ape-lizards have the capacity to remember and to plan, and these tools are mighty boons. But as with any tool, they can both build and raze, and the stuff they build can be just stuff, good stuff, or bad stuff.The choice is always ours; it is ever and only owned by the individual human being.

Today is the place we actually live. We navigate life from moment to moment, just as nature does. In the slice of universe we occupy we only move forward through time. We can't move backwards and we can't stop.

We human beings can and often do spend time remembering and planning. We can also, if we decide to, attempt to ignore the present by concentrating our mind power on what once was and what might possibly be. If we sail too far into those waters, we will enter a part of the sea of life which is clearly marked on our charts, "Here There Be Dragons."

The waters surrounding Mare Draconum are safe and lovely and we must sail them. They give us succor and comfort and possibility and most importantly Hope.

It's also important to sail into Mare Draconum from time to time. There are precious treasures there and in order to actually live our life, we must seek and win those treasures. But we must ever be mindful that if we founder in that part of the ocean we will surely be consumed.

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Be well and embrace the blessings of liberty.