This has been a quiet day. Did two loads of laundry but not much else. I did manage to make it to the gym today. I didn’t stay long but I was proud of myself for going. I had trouble figuring out how to use some of the equipment so I will have to schedule a session with the trainer to learn how to use it.
I will gradually increase the time that I stay each week and work my way up to fitness. I will drop out if I get so sore I can’t sit down without pain so will take it slow and easy. Probably too slow but I am not in a rush and something is better than nothing.
Had a guy call me today to ask if he can come to the rally on Saturday. He had been at the City Commission meeting when the permit was approved. He told me that one or more of the Commissioners didn’t know what a “Hands Off Rally” was. I guess he explained it to them.
He said they had quite the discussion before the meeting began. Wished I had been there. When the Commissioners talked about the Courthouse and said they would not allow the rally on the grounds, the guy had asked them about it. The Commissioners said the Sheriff had made that decision. Uhm???? Wonder what is up with that.
I will let this one go and we will honor their request to not go on the grounds or sidewalks of the Courthouse but if I do another one I might check into it more and push the issue.
Tomorrow is another quiet day at home. I do need to go to Emporia in the evening for a visitation. A friend of my parents died and I would like to see his daughter. We spent lots of time together when I was growing up. She now has grandchildren – how did that happen? I freeze people in time and forget they grow old with me.
While I am in town tomorrow I will stop and get some groceries. I am making a list and do need a few things.
I spent some time today reading my blog from the time when Covid caused our lives to turn upside down. It is interesting to read it from a distance from that time. I passed the initial months of Covid making face masks and working the Crisis Hotline as well as writing letters to friends and family. What a time that was. I still wonder how history will treat that time 50 years from now. I bet it had the same major impact on all of us that the Great Depression years did.
I think we lost the knowledge of how to connect to others during the Covid lockdown down times. Trust in others eroded as well as trust in our government and life in general and I’m not sure it has come back. Long term planning has a new meaning since Covid and it still feels a bit tenuous to plan too far in advance.
I also wonder what the history books will say about the times we are living in now. Reality is hard to find these days as it feels like everyone is living in their own little reality bubble. Truth is hard to find and it is hard to know who to trust. Complication from the Covid years? Makes me wonder.
Grateful I had my first gym day today, grateful for my blog and the recording of my life it creates for me, and grateful the rally will be here soon.