I find lately I'm extra hopeful about society, and I celebrate the return to things like having school, seeing facial expressions, even frowns, and singing lovely songs together. Playing piano for hymns in chapel again, and at concerts, feels really restorative. Like, new.

I did chapel 40 odd years ago, while in high school. Started up again 20 years ago as a pro! I'm a 'fixture.' I have an informal verbal agreement: I'll do 20 more years, yes. I was asked.

I spent a couple seasons immersing in forests, wading in streams, going deep on what the primal basis of health may be. I found the wild and free elemental medicines to be Earth, Sun, Sky, Dark and Cold. I mean they work for me. I do camp out a lot.

Cairnwood and ANC honored me with paid leave for a long while there. I'm lucky, I think. Cleaning a castle has its enchantments, like winning a prize for showing up as Shawnderella at the masquerade ball. Thanks for the custom tailored dress, Lisa.

To 'normalize' after a hectic day I'll go Canopy Climbing in soaring Beech Trees, my rad fitness program for the last five years - some hundred-footers, even. And I'll take a hectic day any day, these days. I hope I keep appreciating society more than before. I'm in.

Not on social media, I like others to tell me stuff. Never watching the News, I'll hear it from a friend who does. Having never sent an eMail, I have received about a dozen.

I prefer ferment to cement, in terms of some changing values of old, that were never that great. Like who to hate. We need a next level. Acceptance and stuff. Ferment is apparent chaos leading to a better order. Says the 'Wigged Swede.' It also makes a good ale. A toast to the Swede?

Try The Trail. You can ride into Bucks County now. Trail Society was my mainstay for dealing with 'the Restrictions.' On a Sunday I might hear an open-air concert wafting through the woods. Last night I found one, and wow, there I learned that the band Eraserhead is playing this Charter Day weekend. No way. Yes way! I want to see everyone. Go to it!