Monday, September 21, 2026

              It is turtles all the way down.  That’s the answer but I can’t remember the question. A giant turtle carries the earth on it’s back and it is endless turtles all the way down. We will never know the causes of life.

             Bladder cancer is supposedly caused by smoking at home, or maybe second hand smoke in the office, or maybe past radiation treatments, or something eaten, or nuclear bombs tests near my mother’s Arizona home. The correct answer is, bladder cancer is really caused by turtles and there are turtles all the way down.

            Cool overcast day, all day. Time to check out the heater. I am neurotic about my heater, turning it on and then off. My body is hot and then cold. Turning on the heater means closing the windows but I like the fresh air. And I visualize the gas heating bill getting higher. My family know to bring warm clothes to my house when they visit.

            We watch more episodes of SHOW TRIAL Almost done. Very good courtroom dramas. We are waiting for season 6 of SLOW HORSES to drop more episodes to avoid the tension of waiting another week for an episode. Maybe we will rewatch last year’s season 5 first to get into the swing of the story. The depressing political news is boring.  The conniving president is losing his touch to entertain and enrage us.

 

         Sunday, September 20, 2026

             I hear the rumor that the largest national AI development system is just down the street from me. The Novy Post Graduate school. Another rumor is they have a terrorist study center and a national weather study center and who knows what else.  We live in a military town. And we love rumors.

             I have lost control of formatting my word documents.  I don’t know what happened. I understand about 50 percent of the functions of this computer and that is not enough. I just want to throw the computer against the wall and buy a new one. I know, I know there is a better way to do this.

             My neighbor and his two young kids came by in the late afternoon to take pictures of my roommate who is running for public office. Lots of excitement here. She will be really great member of the County School Board.

             Just bought the latest book, BECOMING YOURSELF, teachings on the Zen way of life, by Shunryu Suzuki. I need some encouragement to accept my life now as an old woman with illness and disabilities issues. Last night we continue to watch SHOW TRIAL from Britbox. The series continues to be interesting.  I am encouraged seeing pictures of the crowds protecting the Kennedy Center from the demonic destroyer president.

 

Saturday, September 19, 2026

     I drive by the park in the early afternoon.  No one is playing pickle ball.  What? The sun is out but it is not hot. The courts are empty, some cars in the parking lot, a few people in the park. No balls being hit, no conversations.

     Another mystery. Weekly, for the last year, I drive to an appointment on Cass Street. I drive into the motel parking lot to turn around.  The lot is mostly empty even in the summer, or even during car week. The motel is well maintained but it doesn’t seem to have guests. There are seldom any cars in the motel parking lot.

     Unexpectedly the living room fills up with charming laughing family members. They are on their way to someplace else but came by for a hug and a short conversation. I think I must be their grandmother although I don’t feel like an old grandmother. I am part of a active gang of good people, all on the move.

     In the evening, we watch a good Britbox series, SHOW TRIAL. I like courtroom drama especially in British courts with the curly white wigs. And we also watch another episode of TRYING, a fabulous funny show about family life in England. The young poet and I watch the noon news with Katy Tur on MS NOW. No good news but wonderful articulate journalists and historians. Corruption, war, and masked gun men on the streets, continue to create mayhem, all to please the dangerous president.