Adjusting to the new normal(s)

We hear there is another COVID variant floating around. It is very transmissible but not very strong if you are vaccinated.

We just got our faces back; however, I think we are all waiting for the shoe to drop and we find ourselves back to March 2020.

It has been two years and we have made progress, but people are still dying at a rather alarming rate. Most of these people didn’t get vaccinated and regret this on their death bed. My biggest issue is the number of children that are dying, and a majority of these deaths could have been avoided if their families had gotten vaccinated.

Peter has started home dialysis. He starts with a gravity feed and is working his way to a machine that will work overnight to clean his system. Right now our lives are divided into four hour increments as he needed to drain and refill after that time span. This will give his team a good idea of what he needs to keep him alive as he waits to see when a kidney will become available to him.

Then we will have a whole other set of circumstances to make the new normal.

This next weekend I will be the artist guest of honor at Heliosphere. This will be a first and I hope not the last for me. I am very excited about this. We were originally schedule for 2020 but that and 2021 went by. ear

So, this year is the year.

I plan to spend the week getting ready for it as does Peter.

Hope to see some of you there.

Work is chugging along. We are in the slow season, so my hours have been radically cut. I knew this was going to happen. Just hurts the bottom line here at the house. We have adjusted the budget accordingly.

I hope to sell some puppets at Heliosphere to offset the lost income.

I am grateful for things that make this new normal feel normal.