Maje Baker via Pamela Schifano – @pammypoo on Substack
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No news on Harvey this morning. We’re hoping to hear from Khun Pim, his nursing home nurse who is with him, that he has been moved to a private room. We will try to have a regular day.
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I’ve been to the gym and shared breakfast with Brian. I will practice my guitar, write posts for the blog, finish base painting some sketches so I can work on the details at the cafe, and do water bottle exercises. 🎸👩💻🎨💪🏻
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I’m starting a new book by I. L. Williams today called, “The Way Home.” I can’t say enough about her writing. I’m looking forward to diving in.
I love the luxury of being able to sing and dance and carry on with no one watching now that I have my own place alone. I’m too busy having fun to judge myself…
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I told my friend Sheila that I’m going to try doing a squat today. She has been having good success with hangs and squats – each working on her back – upper and lower – plus she is losing inches! I’m so impressed at her efforts. I did tell her that if she doesn’t hear anything more from me, it may be because I’m still on the floor after the squat…
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We’re having a rainy morning, but I’m hoping it’ll clear up soon. I went ahead and put my laundry out on the drying rack on the balcony, hoping that any rain will just be sprinkles and will fall pretty straight down, rather than being blown around. One has to have hope on some things –
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I’m going to do some base painting this morning in hopes of spending some time at the cafe this afternoon. Oddly enough, I’m going to start finding ideas for Christmas cards and start making a few at a time. I went over the list of people I gave cards to last year and have added to it for this year. I make all different cards – each one different – and my list already shows 35 at this point, so it takes a good amount of time. I love to make them, feeling joy in the sketching and then the painting, so I want to get started.
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Today is Wednesday, so I’ll do yoga stretches today. I’m doing leg lifts as a part of that, and – as I mentioned – try the squat. I’m routinely coming down the stairs from Brian’s place to mine. I have on my mental list to try to go up at least one flight and see how it goes. (I can take the elevator the rest of the way.)
