MY LYMPHEDEMA ADVENTURES

 April 30th, Thursday 

God had to find a way to humble me because he has given me kind of a superpower. I have the ability to master a subject completely. Not the normal way like normal people. I am not a scholar. I am not a prophet. I do not have a degree in college and I barely made the top half of my high school class and I was pushed through there because they assumed that I wanted to be a scholar because of my ability to master a subject. 

Let's take the first subject that I have truly mastered and that is music. I have the ability to sit down at the piano with three or four people that have a basic understanding of harmony and I can pretty quickly get together a trio or a quartet. While I play the piano I can also hear where everybody's part is and play one finger slightly louder so that that person will naturally find their part. 

I have worked with multiple trios and quartets and duets and soloists and they all consider me a musical genius. 

I am allowed to be in those circumstances a dictator. Usually someone else is the manager and they're the ones that back me up and say listen to him he knows what he's talking about and so I have free run and rain r e i g n while I'm at the piano and my little group is around me. Hence the difficulty for me to be humble. 

I have also mastered in my own way the internet and now I have two blogs that are taking over the internet more or less because of my situational awareness of the circumstances which brings me to my third area of expertise, adventures. 

My friends who know me well especially from my youth will agree that I know how to plan adventures as long as I have a wise co-pilot such as my first wife l y n n e. We were known in North Dakota that when the blizzard warnings came in and everybody was being told to shelter in place we would head to Minot North Dakota to go shopping. The old farmers would even call us on the phone if there was a blizzard warning to see if we were headed to Minot. My wife was my co-pilot and she willingly jumped in the car with me driving during a dangerous time because I was the master of adventure. If you don't believe me, ask one of my siblings or my daughters who have the same fearless ability as well as any of my cousins. Just don't ask them for money for they will block you. 

Even though I hate getting my hands dirty I also learn to master mechanical skills. All of these abilities have one limitation. Me. Because I don't like to be tied down to a desk or even a workshop. As much as possible I like to stay on the move and go outside where I used to every so often go out with a smokers who were condemned to an outdoor life. Of course I had to train them for a while to straighten up their language so that I didn't repeat their words in front of my children and so I would warn them if I repeat one of the words that you say I will slap you silly except that I don't know when to stop. That seemed to be enough and they were always very careful around me. 

Now that I've explained why it's a difficult to be humble when God's bless me in so many ways. To be continued.