Money Comes and Money Goes



Got another raise at Binder, albeit a small one. And found out the child support money is going back down to next to nothing as all of BFI's back debt is paid off. Have applied for new court date to recalculate based on BFI's salary which is now substantially more than when he was a deli boy. More family court, how I'm looking forward to that. Took the boy to the dentist and apparently braces are in his future. That would fall into the money goes category, with 13 year old boy fury piled on top. The child won't wear his hat for fear of hat hair. And Kate's glasses have disappeared, linked I think to that fact that her brother has been calling her spectacled bear.

How bout that President Obama? I LOVE him! I am genuinely worried that some homicidal right-to-lifer is going to target him though...Stay safe Mr. President!

Listening to Graceland, Under African Skies...."This is the story of how we begin to remember..."

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Mary Oliver