unalone in our sorrows

Summer vibes in Baja.

Photo by Erick Palacio on Unsplash

I don’t know where I stumbled on this, but there’s this YouTube channel that cranks out good playlists, something for the background while I work, and it’s great. Leeplay.

If you are online, you are probably aware that Hank Green announced that he has curable lymphoma. Hank and John Green run a YouTube that’s wildly popular and they are also both successful authors. Hank’s announced that he has cancer has over 7 million views. What I wanted to focus on was John’s response about the response and other things. One of the “other things” was a prayer that I absolutely loved:

“I pray that we may be justified in our hope and unalone in our sorrows.”

That hits all of the right buttons no matter your religious affiliation and it is a prayer for anyone at any time. I have always loved the quote at the top of my header on Twitter from the Maori, which asks, what is the most important thing in the world? It is the people. It is the people. It is the people.

That’s pretty simplistic on my end and I need simple things in my life.

I’ve needed glasses for a really long time. I’ve eventually transitioned into needing glasses for near and far and I bought my first pair of transition glasses two years ago and I’ve pretty much hated them since I bought them. the transition aspect of them doesn’t work well, I’m always taking them off in order to read, which isn’t the point at all. All of my glasses have slipped off my nose, but that has nothing to do with having bifocals. I would be fine being glasses-guy, but it’s just never worked out for me. then about a year ago I noticed a brand that’s all sorts of bougie called Roka and they are made in Austin and they looked like they stayed on peoples’ faces because they have all of these good-looking people doing athletic things like swimming, bouldering, running, etc. So I looked at the price and decided that I would need to save up for some big boy glasses. I just got them yesterday and holy shiite they are fantastic. Just in one evening they exceeded expectations, the transition to read is unbelievable, I’m not taking off my glasses to read things and it’s just fantastic. Of course I missed out on their big sale, but that’s life. They are running a sale through the end of Memorial Day, but I also have two 20% coupons (I actually have three, but promised one to my lovely wife) that I’d be willing to mail to anyone that really wants a new pair of expensive, but very good glasses.