We all have both. And no two are the same. Some inner landscapes are cluttered and unkempt. And others are tidy and kept. Mine is unkempt. Still, I do monitor it and keep track of where my psyche is at any given point in time.

The outer landscape; there is just one, and we all see the same thing. Well, people on the far side of the world, they see something different. But we are all in keeping the planet status quo.

Right now, the outer landscape here is cold, brr, very cold, with patches of green here and there. In the next few days it’s supposed to get warmer.

I feel as though I am not getting very far with this idea tonight, so for now I am going to abandon it. I am not going to erase it because then I would have to start over and don’t have the energy to do this right now.

I got home late. Pete went to Anchorage and he picked up several boxes of books; good books. I cannot leave books in their boxes, which have lids. Instead I must remove them and put them in boxes with no lids. And so this is what I did. I also worked in the back room for some time, getting the Alaska children’s books in order. The entire back room is actually now looking pretty good.

I took care of this and cleaned up the former banquet room of the historic Eagle Hotel. There are, after everyone leaves, so many things that must be done. Few, before leaving, see this. I do, which is why I get home so late.

I stopped at Bugge Park and stocked the big little library shelves. It needed quite a few books.

Today my tooth bothered me intermittently.

Oh, this is really odd. I found my lost hearing aid on the floor, next to the nonfiction table. I know this is where I lost it because this is where I I found it.

Now I am not usually one for prayer because prayer implies hope and I do not believe in hope. However, I consciously said a prayer asking God to assist me in finding my hearing aid, explaining that I really needed it, which I did. We had a meeting this morning and I could not hear very well. Asking for clarification or for people to speak louder is not something I like doing, so I instead pretended to hear everyone and also zoned out at times.

The zoning out – it is more evident to me now that when I had my hearing aid in. And I didn’t want to tell anyone that it was missing except Pete. That it turned up, late in the afternoon, was to me nothing but miraculous. This has not changed my point of view about their being a higher power. I do not know what the story is, and I may never know.

I just want my dental infection to clear up.

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