1. I'm going to reflect for a few sentences on how things in life can serendipitously connect and bring about joy.
The series of connections I'm thinking about began when I had kidney transplant surgery in May, 2024.
This surgery required frequent follow up visits to Providence Sacred Heart for bloodwork and appointments with the transplant team. Later on, I had the labs drawn at Kootenai Health in Coeur d'Alene.
At some point in 2025, I decided while making these frequent trips to Coeur d' Alene and Spokane that I would listen to the Symphony Hall channel on Sirius XM in the car.
I not only enjoyed the music, I also very much enjoyed the work of the morning host, Colleen Wheelahan and began to listen to her routinely on Sirius XM in the mornings at home. Soon I discovered she also hosts a classical music program on Louisville Public Radio that starts at 3:00 p.m. PST and I began tuning into it as well.
My days began to be taken up with reading from books and listening to lectures about classical music.
In the meantime, in April of 2025, Carol planned our month's sibling outing to take place at the Museum of Art and Culture in Spokane.
Deeply impressed that day, I became a member of the museum.
Joining the museum meant that the museum sent me a monthly newsletter and back in January I noticed something in the newsletter I hadn't seen before.
On Thursdays at noon, when there are upcoming weekend performances by the Spokane Symphony, the conductor, James Lowe, gives a lecture at the museum about the upcoming symphony program.
In mid-January I went to his lecture, even though I couldn't go to that weekend's symphony, and I was blown away.
So, today, thanks to a kidney transplant, frequent follow up trips out of town, the Symphony Hall channel, Carol planning an impressive visit to Spokane's Museum of Arts and Culture, joining the museum, reading their newsletter, the magic of audible.com and the Great Courses, reading material, and thanks to having been so impressed with two other James Lowe lectures, today I drove to Spokane to hear his lecture on this weekend's symphony program. Upon returning home, I bought Debbie and me tickets to hear this weekend's program on Sunday afternoon at the Fox Theater.
2. I can add one other piece to this uplifting bunch of connections.
Time after time after time that I drove to Providence Sacred Heart for follow up labs and appointments, I then drove to Great Harvest Bread Company for coffee and a treat, most often a muffin. If my visits to Sacred Heart ended later in the day, I dropped into Great Harvest for a sandwich.
After today's invigorating lecture ended, I headed straight up to E 29th and S. Southeast Blvd to Great Harvest. I purchased a loaf of Farmhouse Bread for Debbie and me and ordered a turkey sandwich on Dakota bread and polished it off with a soft, sweet, and salty Salted Caramel cookie.
It was an awesome lunch and the many warm feelings I have about this place and how much I enjoyed it after all those appointments returned.
3. In the spirit of everything's connected, thanks to this week's Wednesday sibling outing and our visit to The Scoop, I returned there today and enjoyed a scoop of chocolate-y Eat the Billionaires and a scoop of Vegan Oatmilk Oatmeal Cookie ice cream, a perfect match.
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