{"id":2318,"date":"2009-04-09T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2009-04-09T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T21:56:36","slug":"feelin-glum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2318","title":{"rendered":"Feelin&#8217; Glum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Seed Moon<\/p>\n<p>Today was the second organ day in a row.\u00a0 Yesterday, eyes.\u00a0 Today, skin.\u00a0 Tomorrow, ears.\u00a0 Doing fine on all counts so far.\u00a0 Even so, I find visits to the doctor a bit stressful.\u00a0 The waiting room.\u00a0 The waiting for the doctor.\u00a0 Their evaluation\/assessment.\u00a0 I have a good relationship with all of my doctors and intend to keep it that way.\u00a0 Bill Schmidt and I had lunch today and I told him I view doctors as health consultants.\u00a0 I&#8217;m responsible for my health, but they help me stay healthy and intervene if something gets out of whack.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing Dr. Pakzad I came home and had a sit down with Kate.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been feeling glum, an unusual state for this time of year and unusual in intensity for me over the last couple of years.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a little difficult to sort things out.\u00a0 In part the Sierra Club work may be more of a challenge than I anticipated.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Do I have it anymore?\u00a0 A tough question to answer from the inside and one always colored by mood.<\/p>\n<p>Kate thinks that may be the wrong question.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve prodded her several times over the last year about retirement and whether she&#8217;s ready for it.\u00a0 She turned the question around on me, &#8220;I wonder you&#8217;re ready for retirement?\u00a0 To let go of the need to have to have it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.\u00a0 Projection isn&#8217;t just a machine in a movie theater.\u00a0 She may well be right.\u00a0 Pondering this pushed me to wonder about the last regression I had where I got credentialed for the UU ministry.\u00a0 I did that during a time when I was down about the writing.\u00a0 But, John Desteian said, in a regression, you always go back to pick up something left behind, or unresolved.\u00a0 Stuff to bounce around.\u00a0 Enough for a coup contrecoup injury.<\/p>\n<p>Good lunch with Bill Schmidt.\u00a0 We covered a lot of ground from genetic modification of seeds and nuclear energy to motorcycles and dealing with difficult personalities.\u00a0 I came away still opposed to nuclear energy, but willing to hear arguments about how to handle the waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Seed Moon Today was the second organ day in a row.\u00a0 Yesterday, eyes.\u00a0 Today, skin.\u00a0 Tomorrow, ears.\u00a0 Doing fine on all counts so far.\u00a0 Even so, I find visits to the doctor a bit stressful.\u00a0 The waiting room.\u00a0 The waiting for the doctor.\u00a0 Their evaluation\/assessment.\u00a0 I have a good relationship with all of &hellip; 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