“We lived and lived and nothing happened”

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That post title is a quote from the phrase the Japanese islands’ native inhabitants, the Ainu, use to end their folk stories. It is a formulaic ending like “Once upon a time” is a formulaic way of beginning children’s stories here in America.

Today was like that. A very pleasant day in so many ways, but nothing happened. I went to visit my old dudes, but no one was there, so I went out into Drake Park and took pictures and came back to the coffee shop after a while, but still no one there. So went to Dudley’s bookstore, got some coffee and read more of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Harari.

As it turned out I didn’t get through another page before a tourist sat down on the couch beside me and we talked delightfully for two hours. Unfortunately, I realized that I had an optometrist appointment and departed abruptly.

I know my optometrist a little socially, so we chatted a bit during my scheduled time, and I showed him the pictures I’d taken earlier. That was very pleasant. My eye problems were analyzed and a new set of distance glasses will be on my face in a couple of weeks.

I went home, fussed in the garden planning for the construction of a greenhouse and the summer crop, and then had an excellent mid-day meal prepared by Debbie from the fixings sent to us by Purple Carrot. Like a lot of their modern meals, I can’t tell you exactly what it was, but it tasted great. Then I did a twenty-minute meditation, followed by a nap. I can’t tell you where the meditation ended and the nap began, but I got up after a while feeling soft and comfortable.

At five we drove the twenty miles over to the town of Sisters for a lecture on the history of the phrase “America First”, presented by a Oregon State University history professor to the Science Pub. It was very fast and filled with interesting details, but it left me feeling so exhausted that I came home and took a hot bath.

That bath was the first one since my inguinal hernia surgery, and to protect the healing scar I covered it and its tape with a layer of waterproof tape. Everything came out fine and I feel more comfortable, but limp and a little tired. I’ll read a little, and will watch the Weather Channel a little, and go to bed early.

Like I said in the title, “We lived and lived and nothing happened.”