Sunday, May 19, 2024

  Sunday, May 19, 2024

  I slept well again. I had slept through the night for several nights now. Was this because of the Laughter Yoga?

 When I called Jean, my Hanai sister, this morning, I learned she had Covid. John, her husband, had come down with it several days ago. She became concerned when he slept for two days straight. She called in the medical services in her retirement community. They tested him; he was positive. Jean expresses joy at the advantages of living in this community. However, there is one major possible disadvantage.

  Jean and John live in a two-story apartment complex on the grounds. They might have caught Covid through the heating and cooling system, not in-person exposure to other residents. I hope she doesn’t figure that out. She is very protective when it comes to exposure to airborne diseases.

  When Covid was raging, she wouldn’t allow John’s grown children to visit with him at a neighborhood park, masked and twenty feet from each other. She was terrified. We all thought her position was extreme. But nothing would budge her. John never got to see his kids when they visited the area for that whole period. If she were to discover their vulnerability in their current living situation, I hate to think of her reaction.

 I spent the day alone. I do reasonably well but get down when I am only working on writing. I need physical activity throughout the day, even more than social contact. I can’t stand endless sitting still.

 When I was a kid, sitting still was hell. It physically hurt. I was constantly bobbing a foot. When I was twenty-three, I drove to attend the university from Long Island, New York, to Madison, Wisconsin. It was in the late summer or early fall. It was still warm out. The car was a 1956 Biscayne Chevrolet. I had to stop every two hours to stretch my legs. It had no air-conditioning. I drove with the windows open to get a breeze. That breeze was hard on my legs; I wore leg warms to help with the cramps. Just before turning fifty, I found a solution to this problem.

  I discovered Vipassana mediation. It sounded like something I had been looking for all my life. It was everything I hoped it would be. I sat through the pain, and it went away.  After completing several meditation sessions, I drove for seven hours straight with no pain.