Sunday Spo-bits

Yesterday we attended the Live from the Met production of “The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay’. I was blown away. It was stunning, the most splendid and moving opera I’ve had in ages. Set in the 30s and WWII, it spoke directly to today’s issues of people being labelled inhuman and in need of rounding up and extermination. We went with a friend from Minnesota, who was in tears from it all. He’d come to the opera to ‘escape life’ only to have it displayed. The opera had themes of which I am partial. One is the remnants of survivors of war and injustice coming together as a new sort of family. The other is perseverance to Do The Right Thing even when all seems pointless and futile. If I remember the lyrics correctly, one of the characters sings:

“The world is always wrecked; keep repairing it. The situation is hopeless; continue with hope.’

It reminded the audience what America should be:

“this country was made as a refuge, a place for the desperate to call home.Each frightened life; each a new beginning’

Even the gay character, who loses his lover, decides to venture forward and NOT be alone nor hidden, which he thought was his lot in life. It all was quite moving and it gave me courage.

After the opera I heard ICE had shot someone. It seemed just like occupied Prague 1939.

Last week was a difficult one at work for I had to start scheduling my patients their next appointment at the end of the current one. For thirty years I would tell them to either call the office to schedule (when done on video) or go tell the receptionist I want to see you in three months. Now I have to do this myself. It’s not difficult work, once I get the hang of it, but it is extra work nevertheless. It seems more and more documentation is required to be in a note, and the time to get it all done eats away at the time I spend talking to the patient and hearing their matters. I hope this improves with practice and I hope we get a receptionist soon.

Someone has a rare day off today, so we are going to the mall to get new shoes. I hope the misters Johnson and Murphy are still in business – and I hope the mall is still there. I haven’t purchased new shoes in ages. While at the mall I hope to purchase some khaki pants which are the official work trousers. Mine are quite frayed at the cuffs. I like the ones with the waist that expands, as I do. If Macy’s (or something like it) is open we can look at new towels too. I may have to be assertive with Someone on the subject. Whenever the stock market dips he’s hesitant to purchase anything and last week The Felon shot off his mouth about Greenland, causing stocks to drop.

Final Spo-bit is The Board of Directors Here at Spo-reflections may be emailing some of you to see if you would write a few sentences of praise or congratulations for the pending twenty year anniversary of the blog. I thought this bold bordering on temerity but they grinned and said ‘no harm asking’. I told them please be nice and don’t threaten and be Jotunheim jerks about it. I think what they really want is silver and real estate so if you are contacted feel free to say no and please lock up the liquor they are mean drunks.