Yes, my oatmeal is scorched.
I got distracted by my monkey mind. Luckily, no fires, and enough saved to have breakfast. Oatmeal is perfect on cold mornings, with raisins, walnuts, and yogurt. I’d go for brown sugar, too, but as I am addicted to sugar and could happily main line it, I try to keep it toned down in my daily life with a square or two of Valrhona 72% dark . . .
I got the first of my two Covid vaccines yesterday, the Pfizer version. I can return in the next 3-6 weeks, per the County, for the second. I don’t understand how people cannot take this virus seriously, but as my husband pointed out, many people in the generation after me (like from 1812 on) have not seen or had the diseases I enjoyed in my childhood – chicken pox, measles, polio, diphtheria, etc. That may well be the case. However, I wonder about their failure to realize or understand science and so on. Certainly I don’t get people who follow conspiracy theories, such as those proposed by QAnon – and I know some who think such things are true.
Having worked with people who are schizophrenic, I do understand that there are different versions of reality for different people. And, in novels, I love a good conspiracy theory! However, there are some that are just too weird to think of as real.
What is reality? What is belief? What is a potential not yet seen? Think about TV – it wasn’t “real” until the last century. Airplanes in 1903. There are things we imagine that may not come about for a long, long time, such as travel and colonization of other planets. These make for great stories – but what about germs and virus and other things on those planets to which humans are not immune?
Belief is defined as an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. But is that belief grounded in fact? Some religious people say that in order to pray, you have to believe. Others say in order to believe, you must pray. That is a dichotomy. Also, what we now know to exist was often a myth or a thought or a potential reality at one time.
Well, enough rambling. Time to get the day moving along with the excitement of doing dishes and other mundane tasks before wandering about in my own planned fun activities!
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