{"id":63687,"date":"2026-04-08T07:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63687"},"modified":"2026-04-08T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:37:42","slug":"charlies-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63687","title":{"rendered":"Charlie&#8217;s Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Moon of Liberation<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday gratefuls: Diane. Shadow&#8217;s duvet nest. Relief. My phone returns. Tara&#8217;s big help. Fiber and protein. Groceries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rene Good. Alex Pretti. Say their names.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sparks of Joy and Awe: Cease Fire<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63666\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kavannah: Wonder. Malchut.\u00a0 Shadow<\/p>\n<p>Tarot: paused<\/p>\n<p>One brief shining: Some days. Yesterday. Tara picked up my phone from the Synagogue. Once again I am in thrall. She also picked up my grocery order and my meds. The Miralax chose yesterday to kick in. I couldn&#8217;t have walked to the pharmacy and back to the car without a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not often two week defining events get resolved on the same day. Constipation ended though stomach soreness has not. I can sleep. Get up from a chair without concern. A festival moment for the Moon of Liberation.<\/p>\n<p>My body got relief from a pestering problem.<\/p>\n<p>Also starts sending out messages. Buy the high fiber oatmeal. The seven grain bread. Move more. Sensible. Stuff I know. I order a clamshell of Kiwi fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon I had to get my groceries. Couldn&#8217;t. Asked Tara. She agreed. Got my meds. My pick up order. When she got back, she put the groceries away. A good friend.<\/p>\n<p>Using the creepily easy find my phone feature in Google, I saw a small, red upside down tear light up in Lakewood. Lakewood? Only took a moment. Luke&#8217;s apartment. Made sense since we had lunch together on Sunday and Luke drove.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough. When Luke looked in the Subaru, my phone was on the passenger&#8217;s side. Yay! He took it to Bagel Table, but had to leave it there. Indisposed as mentioned above, I couldn&#8217;t get it. Tara had a tutoring student at CBE on Tuesday. Worked well.<\/p>\n<p>When she came with the phone, she also brought Eleanor. Shadow and Eleanor played hard while Tara left for Safeway. I stayed home, preserving my dignity.<\/p>\n<p>The two burs in my side since Sunday a week a go. Got plucked. It was 8-10 days of silence. Once I got over my 21st century existential crisis&#8211;someone might need to talk to me!&#8211;I found my phone&#8217;s absence a relief.<\/p>\n<p>Except when I thought, oh, I need to text Ruth. Look up characters in a movie. Calendar. Emails. You know. That stuff we do with these powerful small computers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky to have a friend like Tara. She says yes whenever possible and shows such joy when helping. That makes it easier to ask her. I&#8217;m learning how to navigate this weaker me.<\/p>\n<p>Happy that between my friends and Miralax I could have a celebratory Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An epidemic of loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>I live alone, largely relying on myself day-to-day. When trouble comes, I count on an inner-circle of friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Alone.<br \/>\nYet surrounded.<br \/>\nBy love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring and the Moon of Liberation Wednesday gratefuls: Diane. Shadow&#8217;s duvet nest. Relief. My phone returns. Tara&#8217;s big help. Fiber and protein. Groceries. Rene Good. Alex Pretti. Say their names. Sparks of Joy and Awe: Cease Fire Kavannah: Wonder. Malchut.\u00a0 Shadow Tarot: paused One brief shining: Some days. Yesterday. 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