A really quick post

[mousme]

A new friend asked me to have a phone chat with her this evening because it had been a while and she doesn't have  a lot of people to talk to, so that took up most of the time I would have normally used to update my journals. It was a nice conversation, albeit one in which we both mostly commiserated about how tough things can be these days, given all the givens. This new friend is disabled and is having a really hard time on multiple levels with her health, with the healthcare system, with the disability and housing systems, and with the world being generally inaccessible to her a lot of the time because of people's unwillingness to mask. I think she likes talking to me because it makes her feel a little less like all of her words are going into the void. She's also an Attender at my Quaker Meeting, so I think this also kind of falls under pastoral care for me.

I get to "sleep in" a little tomorrow because I have another weird work from home half-day, but it's already super late, so I won't be getting nearly as much sleep as I'd like tonight. I didn't want to break my posting streak, however, so here I am, posting a wee update right before midnight. ;)

On that note, it's time for bed. I will be back tomorrow, hopefully with a longer update. Good night, friends!