Texts between the Mormon and I
On May 10, at 11:33am, I wrote:
Good morning! How are you, sweetie?
2:01pm – hello legs 11. im all good how are you?
2:09pm – 🙂 all good… Just chilling. Wanna hang out today?
2:11pm – I would have come up earlier but havent fancied driving to town again just yet. i need to try to haggle some more weed also before I can go anywhere haha
2:12pm – Nice! Yeah, no worries. I can drive up if you want?
2:15pm – sure can do, ill definitely come up to you next time tho
On May 11, at 11:25am, I wrote:
Good morning!
Looks like there won’t be news about the lockdown until 4pm.
What’s the news from Colin?
1:36pm – oh right ok. he said all good, 350 tho, can do halves , so anything between 87.5 – 175 for a half of a half or just got halves on a whole. 😉
3:07pm – I’d be happy to go halves on a whole,
if you’re good with that. When will I see you?
I’ve gotta run to the atm.
3:39pm – im not sure yet, it may be tomorrow, possibly today, no rush. Im just catching up on some wood chopping despite the rain, then i must pay my pal a visit in wanaka.x
4:07pm – yes it may be a bit late for you to come over today perhaps & im unwashed again. x
On May 12, at 1:22pm, the Mormon wrote:
hello how are you today my sweetheart? has the lodge come to a conclusion concerning its guests? im currently chopping at some wood again, trying to cut the bigger bits
1:25 – Hello! Yes, they’re ok with me staying an extra night
(for regular price, of course), so i would leave on friday morning.
Is that ok for you? I’m glad you’re teaching that wood a lesson…
It was getting uppity. Do you have time to hang out today?
1:29 – ok ,I still have to check with the landlord if you can stay for a bit tho. so if I stay busy with the wood would be good. i want to see you tho, welcome anytime.
1:33 – Also I’d be happy to pay some rent if that helps
1:36 – yea sure. i got a bit of chopping to do & walk the dog also,
but ill squeeze you (in).
they don’t take rent only labour, if they willing to have one more.
c u soon.X
Emails
On May 11, 10:58am, Father wrote:
Happy Mother’s Day to my partner and your sister and to all of the mothers in our family.
Picture #1: Dinner today was baked ziti, Caesar salad, canola, cheesecake, and rose lying on table. (Rose in vase was bought separate). — picked up from Buca di Beppo
Picture #2: My partner is ready to eat Italian dinner with Italian music. https://youtu.be/OYjpdi4L6hw
Picture #3: The candlestick was made by me in a Naval Shipyard ceramic hobby shop. I glazed the vase, detailed it with gold and kilned it. It was a Mother’s Day gift to my mom, in her favorite colors – blue and gold. I was 14 years old.
On May 11, 3:52pm, I wrote:
Wow – looks like your partner had a great mother’s day! I remember that blue vase – I’m glad to see it in use – it’s still as beautiful as i remember.
Thanks so much for the photos! Is our state still in lockdown? I was planning on returning in early June, and at this point, that’s still the plan. We’ll find out if New Zealand is moving to level 2 lockdown in about an hour – if so, then i’ll proceed with my original plan. If not, well, i’ll enjoy new zealand a little longer.
Do you think it’ll be ok to return in about 3 weeks? How is everything in the states? Hope all is well! Stay healthy! Love, X
On May 11, 4:38pm, Father wrote:
Some things have been eased. Masks are worn in public bldgs, and aisles are marked “one-way” arrows in the supermarkets. Distancing is kept, and its about half and half of people wear masks outside. One can travel from city to city, and probably from state to state. Some, but only a few, still wear masks when not a soul is around them, or by them-self in a car. Some public parks have been re-opened cautiously.
Conspiracy theories abound, which can be believable but, being a senior, I still must guard myself and my partner especially. We both continue to be healthy. My partner’s sons continue to ignore her, which hurts her, especially on Mother’s Day weekend. That nice meal is my way of getting her optimism back.
I miss you, and it seems a probable time to head back to Maryland. I’m sure you’ve made some friendships in NZ, and wouldn’t be surprised if you wanted more time there. The decision is entirely yours, and I’ll help you with whatever one you make. Love, Papa
On May 11, at 6:16am, Mother wrote:
Dear X!
I am really concerned about you, it is not a joke. It is good you are holding on your words: you said you don’t communicate with me – you are not communicating with me. It is good for your ego. But I wish I would know your plans in this not regular time. It is not just for you, it is for me, too. I am older than 64 and I have high blood pressure, I am in the risk category.
If you come as you said, at the end of May – I want to know, I have to make arrangements with the office and rent for you a little apartment if you would need a quarantine for two weeks. Tell me, if you have other plans: to stay in NZ for several more months, or years. OR, you are crashing into another friend’s home, which is I will not suggest. It is time for you to live with dignity.
OK, Have a beautiful day and write to me about your plans. I am not a suppressor-aggressor-baby-abuser – I am a very concerned mother.
Love, Mother
On May 11, at 8:37pm, I wrote:
Hi Mama, I don’t know what to tell you. I’m fine. I think i am still leaving in the last week of May, but it will take me time (maybe a couple weeks) to drive across the U.S. I don’t know if it’s a good idea to go home in the first place. This is a beautiful place to be.
But, there is no good reason for me to stay, and i have to put my life in order. I will leave myself open to change my ticket until the last minute, and i will let you know if my plans change. Don’t get the apartment for me – it sounds good, and i’m sure i would appreciate it, but i have no idea when exactly i’ll be home. Maybe by early June, maybe in August – i have no clue! I hope you are ok? Don’t stress out or worry. It only makes things difficult. I love you, X
On May 13, 10:58am, Mother wrote:
X! You are right. Yes, I decided to not worry, it does not help. As my partner tells me: “Stop living her life – let her live it herself!” I better give you some space for the free-thinking process and other goodies.
I am drawing now a lot, and listening, thus to all of these lectures. So, a lot of them tell that you are [Leo] will be successful in the international business/career in the next month [May]- 18 months. The money flow will not be a problem as it was the last 3 years-18 months. Venus is in your cluster of stars and it is a symbol of money.
I know, it is a pain to work in a foreign country, try to make a visa and other things with it. But I still think, it is can be more successful than to come here where unemployment is heading 25-30%. I think, God maybe put you all of a sudden there for a good reason: to save you. It is me, sitting here like a groundhog – never going out. but you would be obligated to run around from one to another office. It is dangerous more than you are thinking about. trumpajka is thinking just about winning the hot place in the white house for the next term. He does not care for people and they are running around without masks and got sick like flys, and making sick others and the doctors, it is a strange country, the strange mood of the suiciders and killers… let loose. [ I listened to the president of NZ one day and was crying – it is like day and night the difference between our countries]
Also, they were talking about you, Leo, having the Sun in your somewhere home [ I forgot now which] but it is mean that Papa’s presence in your life is important for you. I thought back and it is true! That why you stayed behind with him. And now, he is helping you, which is too, according to your stars! I am glad, that you have a good relationship with papa it is good for your karma and in today’s reality if more precisely!
By listening to those lectures I understood so much so, I decided: I will not take it to my heart so much – because I can’t change your mind, your stars’ position. You will do what you will do I just have to trust you because you are the most intelligent sign in the horoscope. It is true, you are sometimes are naive and tend to believe in people so, be careful to not be robbed by strangers, do not tell anything about your money. But also, I was naive all of my life and I have survived with some casualties, but, hopefully, you will be smarter than I was, and you, in general, are.
Oh! one of them or two of them were talking about your career: it may be in Yoga, lectures, teaching, or go to university for a higher education yourself! I thought: yoga, teaching yoga? sounds familiar! Also, she said: you are, all of the sudden, would do the cardinally different project which is you never could finish before, [to write a book or something] but now it will be clear for you how to finish it and it will be even profitable for you and exciting, because it was a hobby, so it would be easy for you. Ah! also! She said because of Venus it is money and love, maybe it will be a project with someone like a partner, but you must be a boss and keep your money in secret from him. He is just a helper. So, good luck with it.
Ah! Also, why I decided to not worry: because I saw you in my dream a couple-three days ago: you are standing and speaking fluently in Hebrew! You started a sentence slowly, and then you went so fast all in Hebrew like it is no tomorrow! I thought, OK, Now she will survive! and I woke up with a pleasant sense of peacefulness. OK, on this note I would wish you the best what can happen to you, be safe, keep yourself healthy, be happy and wise. God bless you in everything you do and think and save you always and everywhere, Love, Mother.