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Hey everybody.  I actually left the cane upstairs by the bed today.  I kept it by me, but didn’t really use it Sunday, so today I go solo.  It had been so long since I’d been on a cane that I’d forgotten how much it makes the rest of the body (that isn’t injured) get out of alignment.  So that after a very short time other things begin to ache. 
 
I still remember after I broke my leg in college how funny it was to try and walk normally after I got off crutches.  And just as Anita’s left arm is always getting hurt, it’s my right leg.  It’s been broken, burned, torn a muscle, and now pulled.  Though it had certainly done that before, just not this badly. 
 
I did mostly notes this weekend.  We had the kiddo.  I was too cripped up to do anything much, so I thought I should at least be in the same room with her, and be available.  We played tea party with her Disney talking tea set.  We watched endless Mrs. Bradley Mysteries.  It’s a series from MYSTERY on PBS.  Trinity is very fond of it.  She watched the debue, “Speedy Death”, three times in a row.  I begged for mercy when she wanted a fourth showing.  In between videos she would play upstairs, and over hearing some of it, she was playing murder mystery, or other aspects of the show.  She, as I did as a child, does not simply watch a show.  She redoes it with herself as a new character, or changes things.  I, and Jonathon, did the same thing as a child.  For some of us watching television or movies is not a passive activity. 
 
Sometimes there is something vauable in a movie, or a painting, or anything that you feel compelled to see again and again.  I’ve found in myself that anytime I fight this urge I usually regret it.  There is some weird creative process that is happening that feeds off the music, or the imagery, or the dialogue.  Something that in a few weeks, or months, or even years, will come out the other side of my subconscious in a totally new form.  Trinity has started to have an interest in the historical period of the Mrs. Bradley Mysteries, the 1920s.  She loves the fashion of the day.  It will be interesting to see if years from now, this seed bears fruit.  
 
The series is based on a series of books begun in the 1920s, by Gladys Mitchell.  I believe there are something like sixty books in the series.  I’m not positive of the number, but a lot.  We all like the show enough to try and find the books, and see if they are as charming.
 
Oh, by the way, this is not your typical cozy series.  Mrs. Bradley’s view on marriage, “Marriage is something you should get over with early in life . . . like chicken pox.”  View on the countryside, “Where animals walk around uncooked.”  She’s a lot of fun.
 
I’m going to try and exercise a little today.  We’ll see how it goes.   Bye for now.