It has been awhile.........

 I took both a flu and a covid shot at CVS on Monday, this past week.  I had a reaction on Tuesday and that more or less screwed up my entire week. 

Earlier that Monday I sat through my first Valeda session that started with eye testing - each eye both 'clearly' and with dots covering that previously clear line of sight - followed by 4 series of light treatment (2 each with each eye open and 2 with each eye closed...30 sec....90 sec....30 sec....90 sec).

That's it - but each is recorded in detail and reported back to the German developers and they build their data base.  

So.....what do I think after 3 sessions with 6 more scheduled over the next two weeks that will complete the first of three treatments that will be scheduled this year?  Surprisingly, I actually do see the smaller letters in the eye tests a bit more clearly now than at the start of the week........and I am obviously encouraged by that!

What else this week?  While I am more or less in a bit of a malaise/funk/lethargy and have done far fewer portions of the loosely set routines I have been attempting to adapt as part of my life, at least I have 'eliminated'/ ceased reading a couple of books that seemed to me to have lost the interest initially had and am actually down to only two that I am now reading:  

Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is 673 pages of plain, old-fashioned literary fiction.  I met Desai in Shanghai in 2006 when her last book, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Booker Prize.  This is a book that 'requires' one to read daily, without stopping for a week - continuity calls for this......but I am in a good reading flow with this and am a quarter of the way into this book.......and enjoying it.

F Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is gong to be covered for my literature class.  I am reading it now after completing the stuff I read by Hemmingway.  I enjoyed reading/re-reading Hemmingway.  I didn't complete Faulkner - couldn't get interested in working through some of his stuff......but I did read Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here which, written in 1935, seems very applicable today.  Fitzgerald?   I never really liked Gatsby and this 'new' book is interesting enough that I will finish it before starting something else.

I voted!

I haven't sketched, drawn or painted - no desire this past week - will get back to it later.......

And today?  Dodgers at Toronto in World Series, Game 1............


These were 12 October pictures that finally showed up on my blogger - we saw Les Mis that afternoon at the Pantages and then went to the Bourbon Steakhouse to celebrate TianTian's birthday........a great, long weekend!!!!!

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