The last leg of this journey

I got back to Kay’s in Spartanburg about 730 PM Sunday evening – about 21 hours after I had gotten up to go to the Krakow airport. I napped on the plane a bit but tried to stay awake. I forgot to use my No Jet Lag pills at the beginning but started in the middle of the trip. I do think they make a difference. I woke up at 5 AM yesterday but stayed in bed until about 830 hoping to get more sleep. I felt fine yesterday. I did not need to nap and even got an evening bike ride in.

Soon I will be packing my car and heading for Nashville – about a 5.5 hour drive. I will stop for coffee about 45 miles north of here with dear friends. Tomorrow I will meet with a bathroom designer to see if I can convert my Jack and Jill bathroom into 2 full baths. It is one thing that would increase the value of my condo for rent or sale. In the meantime, updated bathrooms will bring me great joy.

I am not looking forward to the unpacking but I need to get it done quickly as I have Habitat this weekend and I need to get ready to go to Iowa next week. Carli has been doing great at my son’s and I am anticipating she will miss Brady. They routinely wrestle several times a day now.

I really want to spend some time pulling together all of the information about various small organizations that are working to support Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees. They are all working pretty much in isolation – with no or vague awareness each other. I am not sure here is a way to avoid that in a crisis circumstance. All energy goes to meeting immediate needs with no bandwidth think more strategically. Perhaps with all that we learned in Krakow, we can serve at a minimum catalogue all of individual efforts and share that list back with them as a first step.

Time will tell. First step is get back to Nashville and see how things evolve.