Never Stop Learning! And Our Walk Out In The Woods

 

I am always learning. I read a lot, and I have begun taking online courses for free. But those online courses aren't all that good, at least so far that I have seen. I will alert you if I find any good ones, any really good ones! But mainly, they are sort of weird, I mean, really weird! They are so weird that I don't recommend the vast majority of them, at least on that one site I told you about, on Alison. Those courses lack any sort of uniformity. Usually, in a real course, online, probably, you can expect a mix of video presentations and written text-based lessons, bundled together with quizzes and final tests. But these, you don't know what to expect, because the creators were allowed to do whatever they wanted to do! They don't even tell you, in the description, if it will feature just videos, just text, or a mix of the two. You have no idea, before you click on the course. And what's the most weird, is that you are enrolled as soon as you click on it, the default is that you enroll. If you don't like it, you can disenroll. But anyway, I digress. Always be learning! I like to learn! Learning helps you in your life, in how good you are, at whatever you do!

Now, I went on a walk with Haven, a week ago, and I've been meaning to tell about it. When we went out, it was a very foggy morning. It looked sort of like how it looks in this picture:

 "The heart of another is a dark forest."

_Gloria Vanderbilt

As the day progressed, the fog made way for a sunny day, but it took its sweet time! In the meantime, it was slightly spooky! I like how its kind of hushed out in the forest, in the fog. In Portland, we get a lot of fog in fall and winter. It's very atmospheric! It helps me get into Halloween: the decorating and watching horror films with Haven. Anyway, the walk! It was so nice. We had been apart for a long time, and this was our first time hanging out since this whole Covid thing started up all around us. For one, she is a nurse, so she has to be super cautious because of that. For another, I do too, because I live with my parents now, and they are older, they had me older in their lives than most parents do starting out. They had wanted to wait, and didn't mean to wait as long as they did, but now they're elderly! Anyway, so I have to be cautious as well, for them, to protect their health. Like I wanted a job, and I couldn't work at a grocery store, because that would have put their lives in danger, since I live with them now. I had a good job, but I got layed off and had to move back home, because of Covid-19. Haven and I have been Zoom calling online, to stay in touch. It's better than the phone, because we can see each other, really big, on our computers, and you can see how the other person looks, which is so important right now, when you go out and everyone is wearing masks indoors. Well, so, I was worried, but it looks like we are going to stay a couple. Yeah! I didn't know... I mean, I don't work with her, and I didn't know if she'd found someone there, that, but no! No way! Oh, I am glad! This is just going to be fine. People have to live through things sometimes that they would rather not, but it can make them stronger in the end. Haven is really worried about the Delta variant. I am too! So we held hands, until it got warmer, and we had to take our gloves off. But it was fun! I'm going to marry Haven, if I can. I don't know now. I don't work. When we made our promises to one another, I worked and she worked. Now just Haven works, and I feel bad about that, because I want to be a provider for our household. As a man, I feel it's important, to be there, financially, for your wife. I need to work! It's just bad. Bad times!

We had on our stretchy gloves, but same difference--So nice!