7/18 Still alive!

7/19 1st day of the fourth decade.  I enjoy a canoe floating on a lake while sipping tea.  I enjoy being here.

7/20 Sun on the water, friends, food, music, laughter and relaxation.

7/21 Riding home, dinner with loving beautiful intelligent and kind parents, back to the city

7/22 Must move car for street cleaning, go to work, car is towed, very first day working in the city in this new decade, but on the walk to pay the towing fine I listen to my favorite new CD, and see a spectacular sight unique to the city which I had never seen, reminding me of who I am,

7/23 Getting the car back and enjoying the sunny drive in the city to begin the day, teaching a new beginner's class in the morning, followed by the third week of an intermediate speaking and listening class.

7/24 Running with the summer rain

7/25 I am invited to get paid to chaperone foreign students at the glowing exciting crazy theme park beach at the edge of the city on the same island where I'd been born thirty years before.

I have lived today with waking, the water in the body, the water flowing on the body, the food, more water in the body, the tea, the sunlight and car and the brief moment of steering the wheel before climbing the hill and riding the underground in close proximity to everybody, before wandering through an ethnic Asian neighborhood in search of six delicious teas, and then a Japanese lucky fish dessert with bean, and riding to the books in the library, where I found five books on inspiring humanity: Marco Polo, the first famous journeyer in the East, Leonardo da Vinci, the innovative and unparalleled versatile genius artist, inventor and thinker, Ulysses S. Grant, the general winner of the biggest war in the history between the currently most influential country for freedom and bravery, Andrew Carnegie, the man of steel from rags to riches who gave his wealth to better causes and was once the train track creating, first philanthropist (love humans) and richest man in the world, and Maya Angelou, the poet, writer, storyteller, traveler, dancer, singer, daughter, sister, mother, political organizer, director, and inauguration speaker, all of which I can read in the next six weeks to keep my reading, thinking and learning mind in peak, while drinking healthy tea, continuing to eat and move and exercise and interact healthily, and write a real story about a journey with the cosmic sea.

You should have a great time

Enjoy your life and I enjoy mine, and maybe we enjoy life together sometime in our prime, and spread this joy to others, and share with others, and allow the world to make us feel joyful, and embrace the love of loving people and the world and the journey with life and lovers and family and all imaginable varieties of living breathing feeling thinking and moving creativity.

You do well and will wow us.