Had my bone scan, had my covid shot, had a lovely, lovely day being outside in the gorgeous autumn weather. Clear, sunny, low 60’sF, bit of a breeze blowing in my hair. It was just fantastic. October is my favorite month (April is second), and October in New England is just spectacular. So glad we moved here way back when. And my daughter was there doing her superwoman taking care of mom thing. How did I get so fortunate as to have her back in my life right now? Amazing, she is. Truly amazing. So in spite of all the really, really horrific things that the current administration and it’s cult followers are pouring down on us (yes, I went there), there is a lot of good in the world, and a lot of true beauty. Just let yourself find it, see it, hear it. Don’t get so absorbed in all that’s wrong that you miss all that isn’t wrong. Even a perfect cup of coffee is worth celebrating. Never give up, never surrender, but never let yourself be destroyed by not letting yourself see the good in the world. I think it was Mr. Rogers who said that when everything is going to hell (paraphrasing here, Mr. Rogers would never say hell, I”m sure), look for the helpers. Look for the good people out there trying to make things better. There are millions of them. The news only really shows you the bad, because that’s what get ratings and clicks and whatever, but it is not the only story. Let yourself be aware of the good stuff. You won’t regret it, I’m sure.

Upped my prednisone to 10mg, and feeling better, finally. Dr. wanted me to do 15, but no. I’m never getting off this med. Reset my laptop, thought I’d lost some crucial bookmarks, but found them. Trying to clean it all up, because I need to be getting ready to move, assuming I can find a place, and I just am not physically able to do the work needed, and messing about on the laptop does not hurt. Much.

Still appalled at my country, stunned that the orange disaster is destroying the White House, THE WHITE HOUSE, to build himself a gold ballroom while condemning the citizens of the country he is meant to be leading to possible starvation and death through cutting benefits and allowing the US version of the SS or the Gestapo to randomly kidnap and brutalize and torture said citizens. How is this happening? Who can top it? I have no answers or solutions, I am just numb.

Saw a thing where Amazon supposedly wants to replace thousands of workers with AI and robots. Been going on for a long time, where people are being replaced by machines. My question is, if machines put everyone out of work. how is anyone going to be able to buy your product anyway? No income, no purchasing. Seems like a self-defeating move, but then I never understood the foreclosing homes to let them rot business model, either, but I think there is some way this benefits the foreclosers financially and I don’t understand how that works at all. Oh, well. What a world. What a world.