Dormant Life

I recently encountered evidence of a dormant life, the lost possessions of a person who lived here more than five years ago. That person is me.

The window replacement crew needed a big work space for full access to the windows. I had to relocate two book shelves, some other furniture, and a mountain range of stacked documents and TAQ submissions. Every available living room surface had become part of my file system (use of the word “system” as a descriptor is highly inappropriate). This ton of stuff had to move somewhere else.
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Wipe Out

Wipe out! A few seconds after the above image was captured, the surfer disappeared in a cloud of angry foam. Shortly after I completed work on the image, one of my piles of tottering paper let go. There was a minor earthquake as it collapsed and a landslide of papers spilled out across the base of the stairs. I have been trying to clean up and organize. Hence the greater mess.
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Five Year Anniversary

Up 0830
Difficulty sleeping last night. Realized it was the five year anniversary of injury. Minds eye kept cycling through events from the night of the accident. Also reflected further on last week’s meeting with Dr D. Now believe that her introduction of the “random universe” was an attempt to bring me to a state of equanimity over the injury outcomes. During the meeting, I responded with some knowledge in regard to the Existentialists, notably Camus. It has taken me more than four days to understand the probable intent of her remarks. Call me slow and addled.
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