Powerful Friends

Let your friends do your work for you.

Time is one of your friends.
No force on earth is more powerful than time. Get to be buddies with it and it will be happy to do you favors, both big and small.
One small example; I have learned to ask of time to help wash the dishes. I used to work hard, using lots of soap and elbow grease to try to scrub baked crusty stuff off of a dish, mostly because I didn't want to spend a lot of time at the task. Now I put the crusty dish under water and let time do most of the work. I come back and help once in a while. We make a good team.
There are many big examples too.

Bugs are friends.
What I loosely call "bugs" do most of the biological work in the world. Getting comfortable with them is important to being comfortable on earth. As we encourage the most helpful bugs, they will help clean and recycle and defend us from unhealthy bugs.

The Teacher is on duty

Yesterday I was low on personal energy due to a 24 hour flu bug. I was tired of everything and wondering why the hell I'm working so hard and investing so much in our crazy venture. There must be better things to do with my time and money; certainly easier things.

Tonight I'm feeling better and started reading some blogs.
Whamo!!
A series of lessons lined up to beat me in the face and say
"THIS is why you are working!"

It started with "How to save the world " Saturday Links
And led to Earth in imminent peril
Then Birds vanishing
Then Climate change and battles for resources will set the world aflame
And Climate change blamed as Lake Superior Shrinks
and more stuff... but you get the idea

Amy update

6:00
Amy is doing her own blog now.

Lynn called at 3:30. Amy is at Mayo and doing well at the moment. She is hydrated and not in pain; just slightly nauseated; not even on an IV. Doctors are running tests. Colin is still with Amy. Lynn and Ruth are going to bed.


Background:
Amy was feeling good in the morning (Wednesday) and even walked 1/2 way to work. By 2:00 she started getting sick and went home. By evening she was in pain, had blood in her stool and bad diarrhea.

She went into the emergency room at Brainerd. Her white blood count was very high. After a little consulting, they decided not to mess with it, and to ship her to Mayo by ambulance.

Life happens

Babysitting on a regular basis lately is keeping me a full time grampa. That tends to eat up the words, time, and energy that I might otherwise have spent blogging.

So... rather than writing clever insights into life, I'm living it for a while.

Password woes

I seemed to be stuck in a perpetual loop. Google (blogspot) seemed determined not to let me change my password, but I finally got it done.

Maybe now I can use this site more often.