big days...and yes

We got a big yes today.
jumping was awarded $5,000 for post production from the Texas Film Maker's production fund.
Congrats also to friends and filmmakers Nevie Owens, our wonderful editor, David Lowery, our friend in Dallas and Heather Courtney, the brave documentarian.

I feel better. Excercised today, started to get my groove on again.

Talked to my friend Maggie who says, "The Mayan calendar says the world will end in 2012, so what? We still go ahead, we still enjoy, we still work toward the future, the prophecies are so often wrong."

We've got so much to look forward to with jumping.

I'm also looking forward to finding my homeless friends again and letting them tell their stories. Today, at the gym, Tracy and I saw a woman, outside, sitting in the heat. As we talked, an EMS truck drove up, two men got out, walked slowly toward us, obviously no one was in serious danger...They asked if we'd called 911...nope, not us.
Then we saw the same woman come out of the gym. She'd called them. She'd just left the Austin State Hospital, they'd told her not to come back and now she's dehydrated, etc. The EMS guys had seen this before, asked her, "St. David's or Brackenridge?" She replied, "St. David's" and off they went to the E.R.

I know the State Hospital is underfunded, sadly so. I know the woman was probably sent away for a good reason. I know that she's probably got some mental issues...and a bed in the hospital is better than no bed...still, can't we do better?


Evil and despondency will have to collapse of their own weight.