I started the day with the usual routines and my morning walk with Lauren. I listened to "The Art of Dying Well" on the way back and throughout the day as time allowed. After walking Scottie with Jen, I went to Panorama for the morning meetings. The "early arrival" continues to be engaging as a way to reconnect with the distributed team. I boxed up and shipped out the Ali banner I sold on eBay and returned to Panorama for the weekly BIG meeting. Today's was an excellent one with lots of fascinating discussions about various aspects of burials. I have to say that the more I learn, the more I feel grateful to have started this education, to have my own circumstances quite well addressed, to recognize a sort of 'calling' for this topic, and to just be reminded on a regular basis that it's good to be alive. I worked from SRC in the afternoon and met with Dr. Silva. We discussed the usual things including the effort to find the right balance for cognition without anxiety. We are going to stick with what's working today but I'm watching for anxiety closely. If I see enough indication of it, we will nudge things up slightly. Lauren worked 4.30-7 and was told she was moving out of training mode which is a substantial increase. I'm happy for her. Tommy swapped out the transmission mount on his Audi. He has such an aptitude for mechanical things, it's quite impressive. Jen was busy all day with work demands. She's so tired. We were going to see "The French Dispatch" tonight but nudged it to Sunday. It'll be raining Sunday. I've been waiting for this movie for almost a year. In preparation, because I'm such a fan of his work, I'm doing a Wes Anderson marathon, chronologically, to revisit them all. 9 in total. I'll finish by Sunday. It's an undertaking but for fuck's sake I need a god damned break from work and death and cancer. I watched Bottle Rocket tonight, for the 1st time, and really enjoyed it as a starting point. Rushmore followed and as has been the case before, I see and appreciate more each time. Tomorrow I'll squeeze in the next two but the night is pretty packed with my mom's birthday dinner and a hockey game for Tommy so... shoot... maybe Sunday is too ambitious to get through the rest. We'll play it by ear, I guess.
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