photos from skipping volunteer work

 

google translate extravaganza

Well everyone, I hope you are having a good day.  I am having a good day but still have to quarantine even though my covid test was negative.  That is okay with me and I am just thankful that I don’t have covid.  When I think of other problems in my life, like an unfair publishing delay or disability from abuse, I can also be okay by being thankful that I do not have a serious addiction problem.  I have a problem eating too much sugar, but it is not the same as worse things like heroin addiction or being prescribed Depakote. Counting blessings is definitely one of the most effective strategies for coping with loss, but sometimes people are expected to do that too much instead of having the fair treatment and blessings that they should get instead. 

But I have enough blessings and happiness. I have pudding and jello in the refrigerator, coffee and caramel sauce, and dramatic parkinsons symptoms that include sleep paralysis where I feel a demonic presence next to me holding a human head and I scream for my mom but no sound comes out. It just doesn’t get better than that for quarantine entertainment, and I truly will not complain because along with that kind of illumination I am also learning in a theology class about Martin Luther King Jr’s nonviolent resistance. It is helping me understand my own Catholicism, which I have found to be just the right theology compromise for our whole society.  MLK was a saint, and he does not need anyone’s forgiveness as the final word, because he had it from Christ himself, making him a Presbyterian, too.  He was also a black person, which not everyone can do. Anyway, I have translated one of my poems into Chinese:

詩

最光榮的事情之一

耶穌基督在地上做了

他是怎麼保密的

我們的守護天使

是友好的卡通小老鼠