No filter, no adjustments.
Highlights: Mom's appointments went well; test results remain solid and indicate good stability. I called about her medication grants, and things are well aligned to get her through 2024 and into 2025 with options to extend without much difficulty. I exchanged several good calls and texts with Tommy, indicating that our heart-to-heart was taken to heart. I've made plans to visit Lauren this weekend and to stay with Matt/Laura. My 'introductory' call for the upcoming C&C presentation went great, and I'm getting some guidance tomorrow and beyond as I prepare for it. The day ended with a relaxing evening (much-needed) alone after a Costco run with Tommy while Jen visited a nearby friend.
Insights: The day began with a breathtaking sunrise. It felt like a cinematic moment representing a new start. It served as a reminder of the passage of fleeting time alongside the magnificence of nature on a scale far grander than our up-and-down dramas could ever be. Individually or collectively. We, as a species, seem almost inconsequential by comparison. Our presence plays out in subjective isolation while the order of nature, including our own, humbly and consistently accents it all, generation by generation, century by century. It's the ultimate perspective adjustment to pause and consider its magnitude and our place within it. Perhaps our most significant contribution could be to leave it all literally and karmically better than we found it.