Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Lazy Days of Summer

Linda and William at Cow Creek

It’s been a while since I blogged. Linda Grace was here last week and we went down to Myrtle Creek to visit our friends, Deborah and William. We spent a couple of days floating on the river, which was a perfectly idyllic way to pass the time. I could use more river adventures.

My family is still on Chautauqua. Diane has been keeping a Chautauqua Journal with lots of photos. I wish I could be there but it just isn’t possible right now. I would fall apart in the heat.

I’m feeling better, but still don’t have a lot of energy. I keep wondering if it’s that I’m horribly lazy. I’m not accomplishing much. But healing takes energy and I’m still healing.

I’m contemplating my next big project. Roberta wants to start a treatment facility in Clackamas county for veterans returning from Iraq who have substance abuse issues and PTSD. More that that, she wants me to head a task force in Clackamas to put in place a continuum of care for the whole county, youths to adult. It all sounds pretty exhausting but I suppose we can start to meet with people to explore this idea. I’m starting to talk to people, and set up meetings in spite of myself. I’d really like to get my friend Dawn on board, but she’s in England now. I talked to her today and she was intrigued, but she’s also going to start working on a second masters degree in Manchester.

My main accomplishment has been to covert my bicycle into an electric bike. The story of that saga can be found at my ebike blog. I’ve been having fun with it. It really is great at going up hills and that’s what I need at this point. At the same time, I can pedal it, which extends the range of the battery and gives me some exercise. I miss the light-weight bicycle it used to be, but I’m enjoying the fact that I can ride so much further.

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