{"id":52733,"date":"2020-09-28T06:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52733"},"modified":"2020-09-28T06:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T12:24:30","slug":"paying-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52733","title":{"rendered":"Paying the Price"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fall and the RBG Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday gratefuls: Groveland. The Ancient Ones. The ancientrails of wondering and friendship. The Darkness. The Stars, now steady. Kate&#8217;s stoma site. Getting clear and healthy. Kate. Just Kate, always Kate. Exposure. Fear. 28 degrees this a.m. The Gold in them thar Hills: Aspen. Magwa, the hero Rat. The clan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what happens to me. I over prepare. I go deep but the subject has only so much time. I&#8217;m disappointed. Did I give them anything? Did I intervene too little? Was I defensive? Will they want me back? Especially yesterday with It&#8217;s Beyond Me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoom of course. Perhaps my choice of style, a discussion rather than a straight presentation. The inherent ambiguity of the topic. Felt off when it finished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, I need this. I need to try something new. Learn something new. Be in this zoom moment as an actor, not only a passive observer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watched Social Dilemma on Netflix. The second of three documentary recommendations from the ancient ones. Again, not much new. Still, disturbing. I&#8217;m writing this in Firefox, using duckduckgo as my search engine. I practice good hygiene on Facebook and still love the old friends and Irish Wolfhounds. I heard the young, bright manipulators, but did not hear the path forward. Unless it&#8217;s regulation. Which is a duh unless you hate regulation as evil government intervention. I&#8217;m for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I changed Kate&#8217;s bandage yesterday, we talked. I&#8217;m wondering how we can lift ourselves out of, or away from, this medicalization? I mean, I don&#8217;t want to see you as a patient all the time, but with all these appointments and treatments, it&#8217;s hard. Our life is not that. Yet, it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right then, Rabbi Jamie called, wondering how Kate was? She mentioned this thought I&#8217;d just had. He listened. He had some time before Yom Kippur and wanted to connect with some folks. They miss us. We&#8217;ve been absent even from zoom mussar for over a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid. Makes all this hard. Kate can&#8217;t go to Patchworkers or Needleworkers. We don&#8217;t go to mussar at CBE. Or, services. Or the occasional program. It will soon be Sukkot and the booth is up, but we&#8217;re not there to participate. Yes, this is life now. Yes, it has its price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, this is cheery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall and the RBG Moon Monday gratefuls: Groveland. The Ancient Ones. The ancientrails of wondering and friendship. The Darkness. The Stars, now steady. Kate&#8217;s stoma site. Getting clear and healthy. Kate. Just Kate, always Kate. Exposure. Fear. 28 degrees this a.m. The Gold in them thar Hills: Aspen. Magwa, the hero Rat. The clan. So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=52733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paying the Price<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4391,65,3967,11,23,127,4314,4381,246,4382,909,3907,4317,3996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-coronavirus","category-family","category-feelings-2","category-friends","category-geekworld","category-health","category-jefferson-county","category-judaism","category-minnesota","category-mussarkabbalahhebrewtorahtalmud","category-myth-and-story","category-reimagining-faith","category-shadow-mountain","category-third-phase-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52734,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52733\/revisions\/52734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}