laramie

WEEK OF Nov 18-25, 2024

Live long and prosper! I've adopted this as my favorite salutation lately.  It has become all too clear that not everyone lives long and there have been too many of my friends and community and loved ones who have left us behind and I've realized how much emptier it leaves my world. I've seen too many friends struggling to get along in a larger society that isn't always accepting. I really, truly, sincerely wish you all long happy lives and prosperity in the world.

That said, this week I've continued moseying along, taking more baby steps, working on improving my own state of prosperity. I spoke with someone at All American Title who referred me to the Minnesota Uniform Conveyances site for templates, and had a long phone chat with Marty, going over the details for our deal. I feel relieved to have set a date for filing the mortgage doc with the county.

I've visited Terry a couple times again this week and she's in good spirits. She (I surmise) removed the bandage from her dislocated finger. She doesn't appear to be in much pain, but needed both hands to lift her coffee cup.

My Blue Cross Advantage plan put me in touch with a Friendly Helpers program of Lutheran Social Services who sent me a helpful visitor, Jamie, a very nice young woman whose own cat is apparently very similar to Rajesh - and she did some vacuuming for me! Seriously; it's been months since I've attempted to deal with my couple of rugs. She also swept and brought up enough clumps of cat hair to make another pair of cats.

I'm feeling very thankful today for friends and social services and pray to heaven that the new regime does no damage to Social Security and other programs that help people in need.