Highlights: A quick coffee roasting effort following the same conditions yielded a dramatically different result. Maybe the forms are right about a visual assessment and a "hard stop" ending. Is there something more to test? Maybe. I have to pick my obsessions with time and priorities in mind. Speaking of "the Forum," we held our 3Κ³α΅ Death cafe at the Forum in Los Altos, and it was the best so far. I am very encouraged by the experience and feedback so far. There will be more. I had a sincere and relatively open conversation beforehand with a good friend whose significant other has found themselves facing some daunting and potentially life-threatening medical issues. It's a complicated scenario for a wide range of reasons. It was a good, honest discussion. I felt grateful for the trust and the opportunity to hopefully use my exposure and experience to inform a friend who might benefit from my doing so. As for my mom, she thankfully did get sleep and is seemingly rebounding from the recent issues. She'll be getting the cat ( "roarshak") back Friday. I expect that to be a game changer for her daily routines in a very positive manner. Cat ladies need cats. It's as universal as all the other laws of physics. But for all of the moments that made today a positive one, hearing from Lauren that she had signed up for the Fall semester and would not take a semester off after all filled me with a great deal of relief. It sounds like more details may come when we have a visit again in mid-May. Of course, anything can and might change whatever has changed, and I plan to accept it as a path, not a destination. Our bi-weekly card game met with technical difficulties, but we managed to utilize the time to catch up. I managed to catch up on a few lingering tasks for Jikoji. It feels like forever since I last visited, and I look forward to doing so soon. I was planning on going on Friday, but Tommy's scheduled his wisdom teeth removal then, and I want to be available for that.
Insight: So much of what we experience is a perspective we adopt. 'Good' or 'Bad' is a choice. We define it as such and make that our reality.