Upsetting Things

"When you allow yourself to be upset over one thing, you succeed only in opening the door for the coming of hundreds of other upsetting things."

Ah, I hate that door.  Here in SoCal we have ants.  Little, tiny, thirsty ants.  If you leave a speck of food on the kitchen counter an ant will find it and then she will rush back to the nest yelling "Food!  Food!" while laying down a chemical trail so that the other trillion ants in the nest know exactly where to go.  (Ed. Note: Did you know that the foraging ants are always female?  As in most societies the males are pretty much useless.)  And lest you think that removing the food particle solves the problem I'm here to inform you that the chemical trail goes exactly nowhere so that ants will periodically show up on your counter top, weeks later, cruising aimlessly around like drunken sailors, looking for that spec of food long-gone, so that if you leave anything new around they'll inevitably stumble into that.

The moral is don't get started with the one upsetting thing.

A guy I sponsor made plans to attend the Keep It Complicated group this morning and asked if I was going to be there.  Sure.  Why not?  I'm really not mad at anyone - I'm just one of those people if I don't like a restaurant after I've eaten there I go somewhere else.  I don't call the manager - I don't write a venomous review on Yelp - I don't send the meal back.  I vote with my feet.

Continuing with the "things solve themselves without my input" riff I was tickled to see that the continuing problem with the church's internet connection was still a continuing problem so no screen for me again.  This time the screen addicts didn't even drag the screen out and fuck with it for an hour.  Simply had a good, old fashioned in person meeting.  Good energy, good flow, good, good vibrations.  I was also amused to see an attendance of about 20.  This is about half of the pre-CoVid attendance of 40 to 50 but it's a nice size - it's easy to share if you want to but it's OK if you'd like to listen for a day.

All without me pushing buttons and twisting knobs and adjusting dampers.