Really. I’m not sure that I’ll ever know. Yesterday, I thought, unlucky. There was a series of things that happened, one right after the other, and along the way, I made some questionable choices. But that was yesterday, and all that were involved have their interpretation of the day’s events. Me too.

I felt as though I was going up the learning curve and it was tilted with me being on the underside – like a boulder, I clung to it for dear life, feeling as though being able to hang on was a near physical impossibility. But I didn’t fall off.

Today my interactions with others were better. I had an early in the day interview with Amy, who is the editor of the Mat Su Sentinel, and a later in the day an interview with Emily, who is a volunteer at Big Cabbage Radio. They both went well. They were both amazed by my story – actually, it’s the story that I’m unable to finish.

New bookcase at Cold Snap Coffee & Homemade Bagels

Summer in the Park(s) went really well. We (Mike and Kora) did a good job of teaching the children about ants, in our use of Story Time, web making, and tug of war. Ants, you see, are very, very strong. And though storm clouds were building around us, the rain held off. We were under the large blue patch.

Worked with experienced volunteers and it all went smoothly. The inexperienced volunteers, the high schoolers, they kept themselves amused.

Dan went to Anchorage and he picked up books, lots of books. I got them all sorted and categorized.

Pete assisted in the late afternoon, bagging books for Saturday’s parade. Tomorrow I am going to have to work in a concentrated fashion and get the job done. Yipes.

This evening, at home, after dinner, I cleaned the horse pen and then I sat on a bucket lid and watched the horses; the three grazed near the cow parsnip patch. Raudi did come to me, and I put her back in the enclosure. Tyra and Hrimfara elected to wander up the hill and graze for a while before agreeing to go back in their respective enclosures.

Today I felt as though I had climbed over the lip of the learning curve/boulder and I was now scooting along. My hanging on was no longer a near physical impossibility. I wasn’t going to fall off.

So, yeah, today I felt lucky. And I suspect that tomorrow it will be yet another lucky day. I won’t know until it’s over.

I understand now that I am never going to feel just one way or the other. Life is not like this. Life and changing are synonymous terms

I suspect that there is going to be a time in which I look back on my life and I will most likely say that I was presented with many challenges, and I was successful in dealing with most of them. There were also challenge-related dead ends; however, I did a good job at considering the alternate routes/differing options.

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