Ram and Dan from City Voices

Hello everyone, today is Saturday, March 1.  I had a nice day today and got a surprise blessing from overlapping conspiracies.  The surprise was that I got to attend a meeting with someone named Melody Moezzi as the speaker.  Melody is the author of Haldol and Hyacinths, which is a memoir of experiencing mental illness as an Iranian-American Muslim.  Wow, it was an amazing presentation and she is a really good person.  She was in the heights of thought and spirituality more than I expected, and I have to say more than me and what I do.  And I have worked pretty hard.  So that is really cool and it did make me have to think about expanding my acceptance of Islam and Muslims.  

I am thankful that I got to ask her a question about Jihad, which has become a source of paranoia for me in recent days. Like I started wondering if people overseas would target my facebook friends at their schools and churches.  And I can see that they probably aren't and it is absurd to blame all our country's problems on another religion.  It's just ridiculous and I can stop the delusions before they get out of control.  So I don't take that for granted. Not everyone gets to ask the exact key person for what to do about things like that.

Anyway I later went to the grocery store and it was kind of good but kind of bad.  Because I just filled up my cart with candy and cookies and cereal.  And really I need some good normal food.  But actually I did get a few frozen meals.  Maybe that is what I will eat for a while, is frozen dinners for the microwave. Thanks Vanessa for being nice to me and being a food friend.

Ok.  What else. Yesterday I ate lunch with an awesome friend from volunteer work in SC.  Marissa Hudson.  She moved to New York and might volunteer with me here too.  That is so exciting and I am happy for New York too.

And here is the last major thing: I found out yesterday that I can't drive any more, and my doctor also said she does not refer me for employment because of my seizure disorder.  She marked "no" on a form, so I think I can still volunteer.  But it is kind of sad to see such an official prognosis.  However I am happy to have an official report like that. The seizures are listed as tonic-clonic generalized: TCG. I thought it was TLE, temporal lobe epilepsy.  I think really it is both, and I did have some mental flickers today and yesterday because of Muslim themes, which sometimes cause me to have mild seizure blips and flaps.

Well, that is all, have a great day everyone, see you at Echo church online tomorrow!