Fourteen people - including a green architect, a retired accountant, and an executive coach have agreed to join Citizens Climate Lobby Bellevue. I feel like I should generate laser agenda and devise the speediest route toward achieving our dream: a national price on carbon dioxide pollution! Unable to accomplish that today, I did talk to a potential member about her interests and barriers for about 30 minutes-- maybe that's an accomplishment in itself- following up and getting to know members so we can eventually (hopefully) form a cohesive effective team. I'm looking forward to meeting another potential member who writes about bicycle meditation-- a pastime I recently realized I engage in.
Regarding work: prescription bounce backs, new prescription refill requests, prior authorizations, and bloated nonsensical reports are encroaching on the 2 half days a week that I'm not seeing patients. (8 pages generated by EPIC holds about 2 sentences of useful information IF I'm LUCKY. I've seen 44 pages with nothing intelligible. ) I need to trim the hairy admin monster. So far, all I've come up with is to stop filing PT notes. WHAT ELSE can I do??? I KNOW! Gradually phase in a policy in which I only write prescriptions at office or E visits. I can have interim steps: announce phases on website. Phase one: one month/no refills only. Phase two: 15 days/no refills only. Phase 3: E visit or office visit for all prescriptions. YES! I will do this. I have every right to protect myself since I'm offering concierge service without concierge surcharge and prescriptions are by far my #1 problem.
Regarding friends- Aruntati is currently my favorite yoga teacher. "There are so many places we can go from this starting place!" she says after we're shakily balanced on one foot, grasping our big toe of the other foot, (bent knee better than bent back), and trying to pull our foot in front and to the side. She's leaving for the summer but I think we've convinced her to REALLY come back instead of abandoning us for the younger dance and yoga clientele at her studio. Thank goodness!
Intention, Timing, Effort, a Catalyst and Destiny are needed to make something happen in life according to Swati, Anita's beautiful sister from Westchester county who we met at Niki's graduation party last night. Today, I was starving at 11:30 AM (catalyst). I didn't have any 11:30 or noon patients! (Destiny?) I intend to spend every minute possible with Summer. I knocked on her bedroom door right when she woke up. I made pancakes from the chia seed/rice flour/whatever other starch Eric found in the pantry batter that Eric left me on the kitchen counter. Summer whisked up eggs scrambled with precious cheese and salsa. We added decaf hazelnut coffee from the French press and some homemade syrup (don't ask me how Eric made that). Settled in partial sun on the deck, calories spread all over the flowered table cloth, Summer told me how Carl wishes she was with him in Italy. I got to see photos of him smiling with random bridesmaids and lines of other young men. He has a huge smile and apparently drinks 24 ounces of coffee whenever he can get it.
Good violin lesson today even thought I had to admit I had not practiced once. Better job next week I hope. Nicole Bloam is a good teacher.
Well, I was sitting in the sun when I started this post but now, even the disappearing clear spots in the sky have resigned into gray. The sun wants to stay out til 10 PM but the clouds soften all that blurring the border between day and dusk. Halfway feels comfortable some days.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
I had a dream
My mother (the best realtor in the world) was showing us houses. "How much is that one?" I asked about the largest and newest house.
"$4000," she answered.
"You mean $400,000," I muttered-real estate smarts being in my blood and all.
"No, I mean $4000. That house has no water."
That is a great example of a dream, I don't want to come true.
I visited my friend Christina Bletzinger Cooper in Melbourne, Australia in approximately 1993. All the water in her house came from rainwater collected in a cistern. Can we do that here? Absolutely! But someone doesn't want us to.
I would love to be one of the people that radically changes our country for the better. But one of my goals for the last 2 weeks was simply to review my last year of utility bills. Unlike the process for collecting rainwater, transfer of my money to the utilities is so smooth that it's difficult to find a trace. Puget Sound Energy is busy trying to take over an old railway bed to generate more power so they don't have time to answer the phone or emails or update their website so average customers can review their bills.
But that's OK! That will make it even more fun when customers realize that they themselves can generate and profit from power. The May 4th New York Times describes New Yorks's State Energy Plan: Con Edison has been selling it's power generators to small independent producers since the 90's. Soon, they won't generate power at all. Their new role will be running the grid and making sure energy is distributed fairly. This is one reason why Timothy Egan can concede Congress to the Koch brothers' "cohort of people flopping around in the waters of stupidity" and still be optimistic. As soon as I can generate, control and profit from power production, I will never go back to paying Puget Sound Energy an average of $225 per month (it took me 2 minutes to find it on my bank website), nearly $400 in colder months, and then beg them to show me the records.
Then there's water: our most valuable resource. Even here in the rainiest corner of our country, our water is centrally supplied and should not be taken for granted.
Citizen's Climate Lobby started with 3 local groups in 2007 (San Diego, San Francisco and Anne Engstrom's group in Seattle) and the number of groups has doubled each year. Including my new Bellevue group, we should have about 300 groups in 2014. Our purpose is to "create a political will for a stable climate and to
"empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power."
I'd like to help each person in my group meet with a lawmaker and write a letter to the editor. I'd also like to join toastmasters to improve my speaking skills.
Here's a dream I do want to come true (from CCL's website): "Cool the planet with your voice."
"$4000," she answered.
"You mean $400,000," I muttered-real estate smarts being in my blood and all.
"No, I mean $4000. That house has no water."
That is a great example of a dream, I don't want to come true.
I visited my friend Christina Bletzinger Cooper in Melbourne, Australia in approximately 1993. All the water in her house came from rainwater collected in a cistern. Can we do that here? Absolutely! But someone doesn't want us to.
I would love to be one of the people that radically changes our country for the better. But one of my goals for the last 2 weeks was simply to review my last year of utility bills. Unlike the process for collecting rainwater, transfer of my money to the utilities is so smooth that it's difficult to find a trace. Puget Sound Energy is busy trying to take over an old railway bed to generate more power so they don't have time to answer the phone or emails or update their website so average customers can review their bills.
But that's OK! That will make it even more fun when customers realize that they themselves can generate and profit from power. The May 4th New York Times describes New Yorks's State Energy Plan: Con Edison has been selling it's power generators to small independent producers since the 90's. Soon, they won't generate power at all. Their new role will be running the grid and making sure energy is distributed fairly. This is one reason why Timothy Egan can concede Congress to the Koch brothers' "cohort of people flopping around in the waters of stupidity" and still be optimistic. As soon as I can generate, control and profit from power production, I will never go back to paying Puget Sound Energy an average of $225 per month (it took me 2 minutes to find it on my bank website), nearly $400 in colder months, and then beg them to show me the records.
Then there's water: our most valuable resource. Even here in the rainiest corner of our country, our water is centrally supplied and should not be taken for granted.
Citizen's Climate Lobby started with 3 local groups in 2007 (San Diego, San Francisco and Anne Engstrom's group in Seattle) and the number of groups has doubled each year. Including my new Bellevue group, we should have about 300 groups in 2014. Our purpose is to "create a political will for a stable climate and to
"empower individuals to have breakthroughs in exercising their personal and political power."
I'd like to help each person in my group meet with a lawmaker and write a letter to the editor. I'd also like to join toastmasters to improve my speaking skills.
Here's a dream I do want to come true (from CCL's website): "Cool the planet with your voice."
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