Wednesday got underway in the spa, and then I began watering the plants. I wanted to get some of the watering done before we went walking with our friends. It was very warm but overcast. Walking was pure joy. If the sun had been out, it would have been too hot.
When we got home, it was time for lunch and then I got back to watering both the rest of my garden beds and Ali and Pete’s beds. After that, I loaded up the yard detritus from the front yard and driveway and toted it to the dump behind my backyard fence. And when that was done, I rested. I’d been going flat out from 5:00 either doing chores or walking Her Highness, and I was pooped.
I needed to finish going through the stuff Gabe Disposal is taking away today, looking for a VHS tape of my first theatrical hit, North Shore Live, but I figured that could wait a bit and I got on the chaise to read for a while. By then, it was 13:00 and I’d been busy on my feet for eight hours.
At 16:30, I video chatted with Dianne and at the end of our conversation I asked her to think about something for me. Dianne was once the Film Officer for BC, so I asked her to think about a film maker with whom I might be able to work on pitching a story to The Nature of Things television show. I want ‘the world’ to know how challenging accessing some social services is for me and other dysfluent people. Right away, she had a person in mind.
Later in the evening, I got an email from Dianne. She’d written to the filmmaker and copied me. Today, I will write to her (the filmmaker) in hopes of seducing her into an interest in my story. Aidan is on board with what I’ve done. It excites me to think that this may be a major move in stuttering advocacy.
Today, Gabe Disposal comes to take all my crap away, and I Zoom with my UK group. (Sadly, I never found the VHS tape.) It’s bright and sunny, so this afternoon, I’ll be doing more yard work. I’ve a plan to build more gutters of strawberries—the next one I want to build is for wild strawberries.
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