Last night Verl and Sondra came by to sit on our back porch.  Verl is old and decrepit and on oxygen which he has to take with him everywhere on a walker. Sondra is his full time caretaker.  So he sits there next to me and says that this is the best time in his life!  I guess he appreciates every moment.  We were talking about suicide and he was just saying that if he had ever died young he would have missed this wonderful time.   That was a perspective changer!  They haven't had an easy life, raising two mentally disabled boys who are now 65, their son died in a car accident, and they are farmers, to top it off.  Verl loves cows.  They come and pick our fruit and she cans it, puts it in bottles.  Wow!  She is a compulsive worker.  I love them.

Ockham's Razor.  I don't think George knows about it.  His good friend once told me that George has a tendency to complicate everything.  It was an aha moment.  You should see his computer setup.  It involves multiple computers and keyboards.  I don't understand it. And this morning he asked me to get his car detailed while I'm in Utah.  He offered to call Al to arrange it.  Al is just a renter in his warehouse.  He's a mechanic but not a car detailer.  George said the detailer is also a renter in his warehouse, but he doesn't have his phone number.  Go figure. 

So once I started a gratitude journal.  Today I am grateful for shaved ice.  It calms me to eat it, keeps me hydrated and I have my suspicions that it is helping keep my weight down.  Maybe I have frozen my tastebuds. Or it just takes a lot of energy for my body to keep up my body heat.