The first and foremost of these is that Pete’s right wrist is better. I can hear clanking downstairs – he is doing the dishes. I did not have to do near as much as I thought I would have to – he relied far more on his left hand than I thought he would. And his hip and knee are feeling better most likely because he’s been judicious about doing his exercises.

I had physical therapy in the pool today. I stepped into the pool and began walking around the perimeter on tip toe because the water level in the pool lends itself to this. I am short, and the water level is high. I immediately felt my right hip become, there is no other word for it, pinchy. Susan, one of my two therapists appeared, and I told her what the problem was.

She became no nonsense and put me through a series of exercises that 40 minutes later, took care of the problem. I was wonderous because I didn’t think that I was by doing these exercises, going to feel any relief.

This attests to the fact that Susan is an amazing physical therapist with an innate sense of how to treat patients.

I went riding this evening and felt just fine. I rode Tyra around the loop and on our trails, doing the route backwards. I am riding her in Raudi’s saddle – Pete’s going to make some changes to her saddle and I will again try using it. But what an amazing horse – she is not serious when she’s minus a rider, but with a rider, she’s very focused.

The wonderful world of work – the one high point was meeting with parents who are going to participate in the children read to seniors/seniors read to children program, with the emphasis on the former. Lois, who categorizes books and is a retired teacher, took on the job of talking with parents about what to expect and also paired up students. I got the sense that, yes, this is going to go very well. This then, is our real foray into the realm of literacy work.

Today I got a thank you note from Joshua who works for the Rasmuson Foundation. He’s the one who visited two weeks ago. This is significant for it means that the door leading to future funding opened a crack. What I must do is what I am going to do, which is keep the lines of communication open and tell him what’s going on.

And the books that were in Mountain Village are now in Nome. I had thought that they would be arriving next week, and for this reason I was planning on going there and salvaging, categorizing, and distributing books. But I think that instead, I’m going to do what’s easiest, though it is a little nonsensical, which is bring the books here and send them out to villages after salvaging, categorizing, and stamping them.

So these were some of the day’s high points. Better to focus on them than on low points.

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