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In Concord!!!  What am I doing with myself??  How can I get my life back on track and continue moving forward after this dreaded stall that I’m responsible for?… I don’t know!  I keep expecting some answer  to drop out of the sky and settle this once and for all, but if I look up, all I see is the hot, blue, arid sky that summertime always brings to this part of the Bay Area. AND… the only noise that breaks the air here (other than the occasional Spanish-language radio station blasting from a passing car) is the HOOTING of this damned owl that has decided to make my parents backyard its home!!  Don’t get me wrong; owls are great;  they hunt small rodents and keep the vermin at bay… I’m all for saving the Spotted Owl and all of its excrement covering the high forest of the Pacific Northwest, but their HOOTING is something that, since childhood, has always struck a chord of lonliness and isolation with me.  Now that I’m recovering and have most of my energy back (but not my life), I’m really realizing that I can’t just walk out the front door to join a “city” and all its “environs” without a major hike thru mini-malls, vacant weed-covered property, and alongside 6-lane roads on a sidewalk that is far too narrow and devoid of pedestrian traffic.  It almost makes me wanna start “hooting” myself— that’s ‘hooting’, not ‘hurting’ in case you were wondering of my mental state these days.  I have a long way to go before I think I could drop that low.  But, I digress…

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