Tears, Toenail scissors and ALONE TOGETHER with BASSOON, ACCORDION & BASS

Did I really only sleep 4 hours AND miss my usual techno zoom?

Blame late night snacking and deciding I needed just to DO IT about a couple not brain intensive life details as well as some writing.


Today's path to virtue involved packing up a bunch of Amazon plastic packing materials and empty shoeboxes for trash day AND finding TWO pairs of toenail scissors. I owe the world meditations on boxes and packaging and NOT saving them forever.  The pairs of toenail scissors were almost together. One clearly got sent there by the cat. I THOUGHT I had stowed the other one differently.

The tears came an awkward. My mom's youngest brother in law has dementia and it is REALLY wearing on my aunt.Easter Sunday early in the morning my uncle somehow got out of the house and made it part way down the block before he fell. Someone found him quickly and my aunt woke up to lots of flashing lights. My aunt says the CO mountains are calling her. and she is going to leave my uncle in care of my cousin for a much needed break. I don't know why it made me cry to talk about when my mom so clearly needed the family reunion in Banff shortly before my dad died. 

But here we are, and here is some funky jazz bassoon for the times..


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