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Today would have been uneventful, if it were not for a particular email I received.

That's not true. I woke up this morning and Karin had jury duty, so she had already gone. Maxwell was reading his Captain Underpants book aloud - it was really neat. He's had some trouble but today after I roze he said to me "I really like reading." It's the beginning.

Two weeks ago the TV went off for good-ish. (It spent a week on the deck after too much '24'.) We will have one day a week featuring a movie of our choice, and one hour with Max's friends playing a Star Wars Lego Playstation game - that is it. I think it has been harder for me than the kids. It was getting to be too much - too much crap. The important stuff like reading was being pushed aside for all of us, learning to talk to each other kindly, playing games, sharing, family stuff. Good stuff was missing and in my life and as a cook I don't get much good time. We seem to be pressed into a McNugget mold of what we need in our lives, I'm beginning to realize that's not the case. I remember a friend's T-shirt that read " The revolution will not be televised" and I laughed. Who would record it? Let alone TELEVISE it.

Wow I'm tired and need a rotator cuff massage.
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