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This is me, yesterday morning, sitting on a zafu on a blanket on the floor of the “office” room where I write and sometimes paint – the second bedroom of this two-bedroom apartment on a street marking the exact line between the Banker’s Hill and Hillcrest neighborhoods of this Southern California city.

It’s 16 miles from here to Mexico. I’ve never been. I have not purchased my first passport yet. I’m 75. Sometimes I have chest pain. But the x-rays came back with only moderate arthritis in both knees.

I got up at 2:30 this morniing, a half hour before the usual, and sat zazen on that zafu twice before coffee and writing Morning Pages and driving two women to a meeting where one presented the other with a token of recognition for achieving 40 years without taking a drink or a drug.

An achievement. Recognition.

I’m hoping to create two or three new websites, as retirement approaches, possibly a couple of ebooks and one of those email lists where people on YouTube say they make $5000 a month. Right now I have five donors commited to a total of $25 a month to help keep my long-running Blog up and at ’em.

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