from Jesse’s Café Américain:

“Rejoice in the Lord, always. I will say it again: rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, give your concerns to God.  And the peace of the Lord, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds. in Christ Jesus.”

Phil 4:4-7

I do believe that the queen and I are in the endgame now.   She requires constant watching and care, and I rarely leave her side.  I have been dealing with the short term emergencies and gathering the facts and resources together for next steps, as the situation calls out in its own good time.  As anyone who has been involved in this sort of thing knows, it can drag on for much longer than one might expect—  in the manner of the Fed’s serial asset bubbles achieved through top down stimulus, one might observe.

There is a kind of a peacefulness amidst all this turmoil that at times seems almost beautiful. And, even when things get very bad, there are God’s tender mercies, if we can but keep our hearts and eyes open for them.

Don’t get me wrong  When a loved one suffers or seems afraid, it still has the power to break any heart. One would think that something that gets broken so often over the years would somehow harden, but no, that does not seem to be the way it is in this case.  Love has a transcendent power, as well as a transformative, power.

 But still, I can see love moving here among us—  and He does send His angels in the darkest hours.

I believe that I can provide updates and links to news stories right along, since there is much time spent just being available nearby to her with my laptop.    However, access to my office and the larger computer there with the data for the charts and means to generate them appears to be a more occasional luxury for now.

I did manage to link my laptop to the big multi-screened desktop computer for the streaming of video games (Skyrim and Fallout) on a hardwired gigabit ethernet I had installed, so perhaps when my son visits here from his Summer internship out of state later this month I will put him on the case.   I could probably do it, but I just don’t have the bandwidth for that now.

There are many things I could say about the markets, and about the economic and social and political situation we find ourselves in.

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