Lighter My Friend-
Thank you for your reply- the everlasting weirdness can be so isolating...you may be correct, we may never get our lives back, but simply move on to another phase- that sounds good as well! Lord, I am sick of revisiting the same psychodrama again and again with only superficial variations!!!! At least I get a few laughs in the meantime, though!
The whole system is so fraught with twists and turns- the judges, the lawyers, the clerks, even the messenger services can have such an impact on those poor souls depending on a fair shake- money and power so often tips the scales of justice the wrong way. Maybe the trial by fire system wasn't so bad after all- I had a professor who said that the modern trial system is a descendant of trial by ordeal, actually a type of ordeal itself- I never saw that before (I thought of it as a radical alternative), but now it seems so true!!! At least the verdict came quickly when one was dunked in the pool of water or one's hand thrust into the embers- and I don't think that any legal payments were required!
I was thinking about you Lighter, my nature and gardening loving friend, as I walked into the house this evening. I had planted night blooming jasmine and gardenia under my windows so I could smell their delicious scent in my dreams and as I came home, etc- I'm not a fancy gardener like you, but I like to think that you would approve my prosaic attempts anyway- the sky is so fresh and the scent of jasmine and a little whiff of roses is refreshing...that makes me happy. It made think of your descriptions of gardening and parties outdoors. I had to have a limb trimmed from the camphor tree recently and the smell lingered for quite a while and is now gone- I loved that too.
I am going to send the magnificent efforts of my former lawyer to my new lawyer- I think he served the papers to the OC anyway- his docs put my little writings to shame, it is really quite embarrassing (he did use the items I gave him to put it together, but I really hate my writing when I read his!!) Actually, the former lawyer's work will really free me up in terms of time and effort, and give me more peace about the OSC next week. It has been grueling , trying to put so many diverse things together in time, and now I feel that I have a reprieve of sorts, and at last the truth has been set down in print on legal docs! If I can get all of the other docs and photos, deeds, etc that my new counsel wants together first thing in the morning, then I am going to take myself to the beach tomorrow- I have gas (gasoline, not abdominal pressure!) and have completed my exams...It has been so long since I have been there, I keep pushing myself and not doing what I would really like to (I need to modify this pathological behavior somewhat)...
Tonight I am going to sit on my porch and enjoy the trees and night birds and flowers and critters. Thank you for setting me straight- I am always thinking things will resolve quite soon, and I need to be patient in order to endure and not lose sight of what I have now. Thank you! You are not only a style and gracious living maven, but a good counselor as well. Hope all is well, and God Bless you and your little ones.
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