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Spring is thinking about showing up in Kandern. It's tested out a couple days, and on those days, Cindy and I have walked around the fire station without braces. I'm feeling pretty good about the improvements in the quality of my walking, and I'm hopeful that with the increase in springtime weather, I'll be able to spend more time on my feet outside. [...]
Content warning: this blog entry contains description of nasty side effects of nerve damage. Leave now, and come back next week if you get grossed out easily.[...]
Years ago, I listened to one of my favorite professors in college relate the story of running into a student at Safeway. Apparently this college student had not ever stopped to think about how teachers don't live at school and have lives outside the classroom which involve eating and grocery shopping and all sorts of normal people adventures. In her telling, his jaw hung loose as he followed her around the store at her invitation, watching her pick up groceries like an ordinary human being. [...]
I spent a lot of time on my computer this week trying to sort through insurance claims and licensing paperwork. I'm not going to lie, it's stressful and overwhelming. It overshadowed much of my week, and I called my mom after I was pushed over an emotional cliff with disappointing news related to my plans for my totalization year in 2018-19. The place I wanted to go emailed me that their facility is not handicapped accessible and will not likely make the changes in time for me to spend that year learning and serving there. [...]
