The rain is back.

At least that is off the list for now.

Still can’t find my work phone.

Grosses Gewächs.

I sit and listen, don’t offer up much of anything. But as I write my notes, I start to daydream about other things. Maybe it’s not so much daydreaming as it is remembering. Remembering all of what I used to know, trying to see what knowledge I can recall from those stacks of flash cards and books.

I open up a window and listen to the rain slap against the trees.

We stare down at the clean plates. This is a good time. This almost never happens.

Stiff knee. Is it from standing all day? Is it from the rain? Is it from my lack of daily exercise now that the season is over? Probably a little bit of all three.

“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, “He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.” - 12 Rules for Life

Good and done.