This has been another quiet stay-at-home day. I didn’t sleep well last night so took a long chair nap this afternoon. I may not sleep tonight but we shall see.
Last night around 9:00 someone knocked on my door. I turned the light on and there was a young man outside. He had a letter for me that was written by one of the Detainees at the Detention Center. The guy that wrote the letter had been at the Detention Center since 2022.
It is a heart filled letter of appreciation and thanks for what Love in Action is doing for the Center. I had a nice conversation with the young man that brought it. He is a local youth that got into some trouble and then violated his probation and gets to spend several weekends in the Center. He had just gotten out for his weekend and brought the letter to me.
I asked him if I could share it on Facebook with the donors of the Love in Action project and he agreed I could. It has gotten lots of attention today. It feels like we all needed a ray of hope to focus on and know that some good is happening in the midst of all the chaos around us.
We had a conversation about the conditions inside the Detention Center. He shared with me a couple of things that need attention. I have to give this some serious thought about what to do with that information and how to go about helping improve things.
Tomorrow I have a doctor’s appointment at 1:00 so will head to Emporia at 12:15. If I am not too tired I will stop and pick up a few groceries. I haven’t walked very far yet as I have only been out one time since surgery. It will be two weeks Thursday since surgery and am hoping I can start moving more and getting out more.
Funny how the days pass even when I do nothing all day. January went by quickly for me but Kathy thinks it has lasted a long time. That time thing is weird for me. I no longer can predict with any degree of reliability when something happens in relationship to time. It doesn’t make sense to me anymore.
After reading so much news yesterday I had to take a break today and have only glanced at the headlines and parts of stories. It is disheartening to me to read the vile comments people say. Somehow, someway we have to rise above it all and start treating each other with some sort of basic decency. What ever are we going to do when this is over? How will we repair this great divide?
Then again maybe the timeline gap will solve that issue. The more positive I can stay, the further I seem to get from those that are still in the muck fighting. If I can get farther and farther away they will not influence me and I can forget about them.
Besides, all I can control is myself and my reaction to things that happen. That takes all of my energy sometimes to keep myself reigned in.
Grateful for a letter from a Detainee, grateful for a young man that delivered it and grateful for a long chair nap today.