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Level 3:In a high rise apartment in Auckland,within my own mind

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  I wasn't ready to publish this, and I suppose, because of that, I had stopped writing.  I've heard the call for new installments, though.  I suppose I've had the patience to wait and now is the time. Written October 1, 2021  _________________________ Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself LAO-TZU, Tao-te-Ching I read this today in a book for one of the two book clubs I'm in at work.  Me in a book club?  I think of myself as a non-reader but I'm in two book clubs at work right now.  One of the book clubs is with my team and it is a way to bond over wfh.  The other book club is from a meditation and mindfulness group.  This quote was in "Wherever you go, there you are" by Jon Kabat-Zinn.  The quote struck me because that is how I decided I'd be living at least in the short term over 5 weeks ago.  No decisions.  I'm fine.  Don't know when I'
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Level 4: Five weeks of hermit life at level 4

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 September 19, 2021 My flights have been cancelled 3 times since I really thought I was going home.  I suppose they were cancelled many times when I didn't believe I was going home.  I didn't trust anything until vaccines were rolled out to everyone who wanted them in California.  And things were looking very good then.  I scheduled my flight for August 29, decided when to give notice on where I was living, decided to go see my parents in New Mexico, go to Zozobra and my burning man buddy was going to possibly come too.  And so was  my niece and I was going to meet her.  I was going to fly through San Diego because- before the pandemic- I started to get paranoid about getting sick from being stuck in airports.  I've decided Los Vegas is a big no-no (as I got a cold in December 2019 from being stuck in that airport for 4 hours.)  Phoenix maybe.  San Diego- good.  If I get lucky and I'm in that side terminal sometimes it isn't crazy crowded.  And I lived in San Diego
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