Spring Full Seed Moon
Today was the second organ day in a row. Yesterday, eyes. Today, skin. Tomorrow, ears. Doing fine on all counts so far. Even so, I find visits to the doctor a bit stressful. The waiting room. The waiting for the doctor. Their evaluation/assessment. I have a good relationship with all of my doctors and intend to keep it that way. Bill Schmidt and I had lunch today and I told him I view doctors as health consultants. I’m responsible for my health, but they help me stay healthy and intervene if something gets out of whack.
After seeing Dr. Pakzad I came home and had a sit down with Kate. I’ve been feeling glum, an unusual state for this time of year and unusual in intensity for me over the last couple of years. It’s a little difficult to sort things out. In part the Sierra Club work may be more of a challenge than I anticipated. In part I found myself counting up all the little insults that make me realize my age, no, not really my age, but my sense of competence. Do I have it anymore? A tough question to answer from the inside and one always colored by mood.
Kate thinks that may be the wrong question. I’ve prodded her several times over the last year about retirement and whether she’s ready for it. She turned the question around on me, “I wonder you’re ready for retirement? To let go of the need to have to have it?”
Hmmm. Projection isn’t just a machine in a movie theater. She may well be right. Pondering this pushed me to wonder about the last regression I had where I got credentialed for the UU ministry. I did that during a time when I was down about the writing. But, John Desteian said, in a regression, you always go back to pick up something left behind, or unresolved. Stuff to bounce around. Enough for a coup contrecoup injury.
Good lunch with Bill Schmidt. We covered a lot of ground from genetic modification of seeds and nuclear energy to motorcycles and dealing with difficult personalities. I came away still opposed to nuclear energy, but willing to hear arguments about how to handle the waste.
