Wednesday: don't ask

 All is not as it seems, and just because you believe something, that does not make it so. 

Whether it's your religious certainties (you should have no religious certainties, religion is for faith, which is assurance and conviction, not certitude) or the world around you, things are not as they seem. This week's conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, they were about to collide as we watched, but it was only perspective, what seemed so from here on Earth. Venus and Jupiter are tens of millions of miles apart, 

but at the moment lined up in our line of sight like the moon passing between Earth and Sun in a solar eclipse.

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Terrible, terrible! When someone asks me, "HI, Tom, how are you?" I most usually say, "Above average!" not only because I don't like to say, "Fine, just fine, thank you!" Because coming up on my nintieth birthday is not "Fine!" it's mind boggling and I keep waiting for the shoe to drop, nomesane? Well, it dropped yesterday. Tuesday morning I got up feeling terrible with what I thought was an allergy. Well, no fever so far, but yesterday it evolved into a miserable summer cold with all the wretched symptoms. Finally for the unceasing coughing, Linda found a packet of Coricidin, which almost immediately stopped the cough and substituted extreme dryness, but okay fine; and I was able to get a decent night's sleep. No voice this morning, so don't ask me to explain anything. Slight headache comes and goes. Where did I catch this, I'm usually so careful? Could have been at church, at Pruitt. At Grocery Outlet - - come to think of it, they did not have the wipes out for wiping off the grocery cart handle. Or it could have been in the elevator here, on stopping to talk with folks on my walk Monday morning. IDK. Catching a cold is not good for someone with CHF and/or a replacement heart valve, so I've tried to be very careful these years. And as well as the ultraviolet lights in our HVAC system, we have four Alen air purifiers here running full Time to remove stuff from the air we breathe. I've not had a cold in about twenty years, I'm that careful, but the Evil Eye caught me this Time. 

As there's no fever, I reckon it could still be an allergy, eh?

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My projects: feel too wretched to go walkabout outside, so brain activity today. Working on my study of Mark with Dr Dan's adult Sunday school class starting September 7. 

shehekehyanu, who gives life.

RSF&PTL

T89&c