Happy Chinese New Year. Year of the horse.

How are you. Alessa? I hope your studies are going well as well as your full house, 🐕, 🐈 and humans 😊

Dear Alessa:

I am ☺️ to hear from you. It sounds like you’ve been very busy for a long time. I’m glad you wrote when you could 🤍

Bogart and I are doing well. I am sitting comfortably on a lounge chair right now, typing on the (surviving) computer, while Bogart is sleeping and lightly snoring besides me 🐶💤

It must have taken a lot of patience to work through all those tangles with the cat, especially while building trust at the same time. It’s sweet to picture him getting more playful and comfortable in your home 🐱

Congratulations on the 84% 🎉— that’s a strong result, especially with everything else you’re juggling. It makes sense that the tests feel back‑to‑back right now, but you seem to be moving through them skillfully.

Potty training can definitely ebb and flow, so I heard. It’s such a long process, and your energy naturally shifts over time. Like you said, he’ll get there.

I’m glad you’re finding the book interesting. I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts about it.

And starting nursery at the end of April sounds like it could bring some rest 😴💤 into your days. I hope that transition goes smoothly for both of you.

🤍 Anita & Bogart

Dear Alessa:

HaPpY EaStEr 🐣 🐰 🐇 🤍 🐣

I’ll write more later.

Bogart and me.

Happy Easter everyone,

Sorry, having been busy. Trying to fix TPMS light on the car. One sensor in tires is dead. Replaced it. Now the car needs new brakes. Need to measure rotors before ordering them. Toyota has different versions of the car. So not sure the size. Different for Japan built or North America built. Other than that, just trying to stay healthy. Have been getting headaches lately. So stopped meditation for a while. Been dizzy.

Been thinking more about death. Realize nothing to worry about. It will come for everyone. Only can try to live well and be happy. Otherwise the time we have will be wasted. Don’t know the future. Or got to go.

Sorry for the interruption. Had to drive my daughter to her school for class. One class in person and the others are on line. These days the teachers don’t teach. They set up classes on line and have the students do their studies on line. No presentations. No actual teaching. Schedule tests and that is it. So, different from when I went to college. Anyway, proud of her progress.

Yeah, truly like working on cars. Unfortunately, getting older and many things aren’t as easy as before. Had a nail in the tire today. Took it off and pulled the nail out. Put a plug in with glue. Holding air now. The TPMS sensor alerted me to the leak.

Oh, yeah, thoughts about death. Nothing new in the world about it. Because of our ego and thinking mind, we have created this idea of self. Our world is made up of our thoughts and we created this ego. So, it can not see its own end. And death is only allowing the energies to migrate to another vessel. The Karma created during this life needs to find it resolution. And so, the next life finds its way to do this.

Of course, people have always said that energy can not be created nor destroyed only transformed from one state to another. And so, when we die, the energy moves along. What we experience along the way is the way it has always been from the beginning of life to the end of the universe. And then on to the next universe.

Sorry, got carried away in my thoughts. I really need to start meditating again. The quiet. The emptiness is where we came from and it is where we go.

So, how is everything with you? Are you happy?