Up To Snuff

(Friday, September 27, 2024) waning crescent moon Leo / tarot Hierophant

I head up to the top of a skyscraper for my job. The window-filled office is empty, surprising to me, but I sit down to get to work. A woman makes a phone call to me, the CEO or owner, and tells me I am let go. This fills me full of grief and I cry many tears as I walk down the tower.

I wander around for a while, and then enter another building, which is just a few stories. A place to live, perhaps an apartment or hotel. I feel like the owner here. There are professional painters working in many of the rooms. I join them and work on some spackling and sanding. The painting manager arrives to inspect the quality of the painting. He feels like a spirit guide. I ask him how I am doing. He sees that I am careful and precise. Up to snuff.

Journal: Electricity

(Saturday, September 21, 2024) moon waning gibbous Taurus / tarot three of cups

Certainly today was the three of cups. I got to go to The Bakken Museum with Cullan, Wyn and Oona. It is a beautiful, historic stone castle, full of games and STEM education programs for children. The volunteers are kind and very informative.

I was a bit shocked when we walked up the third-story stairs and entered the Ben Franklin exhibit. In the “Electricity Party Room,” children can play with remakes of his original experiments. It all reminded me of my old lucid Ben Franklin dream that I shared with Dr. Sabina Lucas. She said many people think they have past lives as famous people but actually do not. She did a reading using my signature and Ben’s signature. She told me my Ben dream was true, that he is my past. I really do not feel any kind of waking connection to him, in spite of her interpretation.

Fragment: Aphasia

(Labor Day, 2024)

I am hanging out with some coworkers. Nick W. is listening to my diagnosis of “probable mild cognitive decline.” He is highly skeptical of that phrase. So I say, “Well, I have aphasia, trouble remembering words.”

Day notes:

I have been attending a 10-week Zoom meeting with Brain HQ. Their neurologists provide really helpful info, especially last Friday. It is recommended to work with BrainHQ at least three times a week.

Keeping oxygen flowing into the brain is important. Hillary just gave me a fancy treadmill that her sister had given to her. I’ll try to fast-walk three times a week, for thirty minutes. It will be needed in the winter.

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