Weather in the Tries: 

Yep, we’re still getting it. Our high today (Sunday) was 90, tomorrow will be 83, then down to the 70s and one 68 for the next week. Next Monday, temps will once again begin a climb into the 80s, but for a week, I might even want a sweater early in the morning.  (The lows will be in the low 50s for the week)

The Jury That Wasn’t:

After calling the broken phone all weekend and hoping for a miraculous fix, I got up early on Monday, dressed, fed the Big Chihuahua, and took him for a walk, then drove over to the Courthouse. Went thru Security, found where I was supposed to go, and sat on a bench and waited. I was, are you surprised?, early. But I wasn’t the only one who’d never been there, nor was I the only one waiting, there were 4 or 5 of us. Sondra opened up her cashier window and was very helpful. She looked it up online, and there were no jury trials scheduled for this week. I came home and found the same message. Now, why couldn’t I have found it earlier? Oh, well, I now know where the court is, and where to park, and where to go. The people who work there that I dealt with were very polite in telling me where to go.

THERE ARE NO JURY TRIALS SCHEDULED FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

NO JURORS ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT ON

 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2023  

I admit, I was kind of looking forward to it, I’ve been on a grand jury, but never seated for a petit jury. Oh, well…

Today is Tuesday. Last night was my first class in Deathcare. I must admit, I’m really eager for the rest of the classes. The class is very diverse—in all ways I can think of—race, LGBTQ+, age, Trans, and even neurodivergent (of which I am one. Truly, dyslexics are considered neurodivergent. Who knew?). Very interesting people, and many of us learn in different ways, and all that is being covered.  It’s gonna be a fascinating class, filled with fascinating people—a whole new family to adopt. And you know how Auntie Lenora likes to adopt people into her family!!!

And today is Thursday. Second class in Deathcare was last night. We did a guided meditation that was truly good. We all reacted differently to it. But we all loved it. It’s been a long time since I’ve done meditation of that sort. I remember when I retired, I had two goals—to meditate and to write. I was meditating three times a day, and often for an hour each time. I was so mellow it affected my writing in a very negative way—conflict? What the world and my writing needed was love. Sigh. I brought it up in my meditation group and they suggested I make my writing my meditation, and that’s basically what I’ve done since. So, in a way, my writing is also a guided meditation, but guided by me or my muse, not someone else. Last night’s was really interesting—we were taken back to the womb (too cramped for this old claustrophobe) and all the way to our death (very interesting, I’ve done this exercise before, but this time I had a totally different experience. An epiphany, if you will), can hardly wait until the next time which I believe will be our last week. This class is going to be great. Thank you, Friend Danna for recommending I attend A Sacred Passing for my training. 

Okay, now, I have a question for all of you. This class is 8 weeks long, do you want to hear about it in future posts? In more detail? Less detail? Not at all? Please let me know. There are no wrong answers, but I realize there are people out there who don’t want to learn about death and death care. And one of them may be you.

Now it’s Saturday and I remembered one of the items from the forever lost post I couldn’t put up last week. I subscribe to another blog that is also on Word Press and the last two weeks or so, every time I call it up on my browser (I never read in email as I miss too much), I get an annoying pop-up that wants me to subscribe. I even re-subscribed, but it still pops up. When you open Coffee Break Escapes in your browser, do you get the same annoying pop up? If so, please let me know either by email or in the comments.  Thank you.

These were taken in 2008. I have no idea what happened in the top picture. I must have had it on a slow speed and moved the camera? But I think it’s still a good picture.

These three were taken during a full moon, I think it might have been a Harvest moon, or possibly a super moon.

All of these were taken down by the Columbia River, the top two at the cable bridge, the bottom two at the blue bridge.

From the Paws of the Brave Dog:

I found this on Facebook and told Mom she ought to use it. I don’t like Facebook much, not enough Dogs. We need our own media. Dogface! Dogs of the universe, unite!!

Don’t use a big word when a singularly unloquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessity. ~Facebook meme