Sunday, February 25, 2024

Sunday, February 25, 2024

 

 I had a brilliant night’s sleep. I went to bed at 10 p.m. and woke shortly before my alarm went off at 5 a.m. Could it be the creatine I added to my diet? I learned about it from Andrew Huberman, who does the Huberman podcasts. He announced that if he took only one supplement, it would be creatine. It supports muscle development. I ordered it.

    I left early for church to deliver all the linens and kitchen equipment to Shirly for the  Silent Auction. I had worked hard the last two days sorting and labeling the vintage linens. I delivered two boxes of linens, a bag of cooking equipment and a white oval ceramic stew pot. I thought of also donating Mike’s brown ceramic cooking pot , but that’s the one he used the most. I kept it.

   I had third-grade M. I encouraged her to make logical guesses. Reading unfamiliar words with 100% accuracy is impossible in English. The best you can do is come close by attributing sounds to all the letters. If you assign a logical possible sound to each letter in a word, you have a good chance of figuring out the word using context. You’re out of luck if you don’t already know the word. You can figure out its meaning but can’t know its correct pronunciation.

   I just figured out my role in perpetuating trouble in a relationship. I couldn’t wait to work with Shelly to get help. I know this person is concerned that I think of her as stupid. I’ve said so to her, and she agreed. What I didn’t do was declare it to be an absurd idea overtly. I rarely talk about a person’s intelligence. I have worked with a few people with very low IQs who were clearly dysfunctional. But other than that, I consider good thinking skills just that -skills, skills that are learned. Some people don’t develop them because they’re not exposed to others who think that way, and some because they developed an antagonism to logical or analytical thinking for various reasons.

There’s no prize for logical thinking. I assumed this person would realize how ridiculous such an assumption is. What I never did was state that it was a ridiculous idea. I’ve always thought she was intelligent. Just because someone doesn’t think the way I do doesn’t mean I assume a lack of intelligence. I may not like how they think, but I don’t think they’re stupid.

   I finally clipped back my leggy myrtle crepe brush. I cut the branches to the back way down and left the one in the front alone. Once the back ones start sprouting new shoots, I’ll cut back the ones in the front.

   I called Darby to see if they had a sprinkler I could borrow. I want to keep the mulch moist to foster a more rapid breakdown. Patrick said it would be 7 to 8 months before I could plant new bushes. If I plant too soon, the roots will be in the mulch and not in the ground. They will be exposed once the mulch breaks down.

  I filled the trash barrel and one 5-gallon orange Home Depot bucket with green waste and took them to Darby’s.