I'm not rich, famous or privileged. OK, I'm privileged. But not in the sense of excessive wealth and opulence, but in experience, opportunities and relationships. I've likely embraced that more in the past few years than in all those leading up to them. Is it from having confronted mortality, abandoning social media, having no TV, witnessing death, studying Stoicism and Buddhism, and likely a dozen other influences? Definitely. Today was spent at the beach again where Steve and Diana continue their 1 month escape from the cold of Minnesota. We were told to arrive and 9.17 am and did exactly that without rushing or delaying to do so. It just worked out that way. Classic. Breakfast and time on the patio, cards, a brief dog walk and lots of laughter and discussions filled the span of time. It went too quick but there's more to come. The weather was good coming/going but we witnessed more turbulent waves there than I can recall ever seeing before. It was intense and fascinating to watch. We got home before the rains after a short delay near Idlewild where a car had overturned, landing on the other side of the guardrail and luckily not down the side of the hill a few feet further. Hopefully they walked away without anything other than gratitude to walk away at all. Back at home the rains and winds picked up and it felt good to be home. I came up with a few ideas of more things to write about and I'm hoping tomorrow proves to be a productive day. Oh and I stumbled across the new Billy Joel song, "Turn The Lights Back On" and immediately loved it. The AI video is cool - I liked the opening visual, that of the turning of a page on a book on a piano, upon which the handwritten lyrics of the last song on his last release, to a new blank page, before starting. I also appreciated the fact that several other pages appear throughout the video while the closing scene returns to the book on the piano where more lyrics appear where it was once empty. The clips at the end were also fun. I'm hoping for more.