Lent: Day 4 in Reiwa 6

In the 6th year of the Reiwa Emperor.

March 9th Julian Calendar

Fridays are always a mixed bag for me. Easy morning, hard evening. This Friday had an easier morning than most (no adult classes), but considering my condition, I was happy to have the relief, and I wasn’t as rested as I could have been.
I was able to get all of my work done by the start of the staff meeting, which was very nice. I wish that I’d had more time and inclination to get more done, but that I didn’t is too late to change, I suppose.
I got word that my contract went through, and I’ll be getting a significant raise, my old salary reinstated, an a bonus that I wasn’t entitled to. It felt amazing. I’m proud of my work.
I ate out, sushi, and took Yoko’s bento home to be my lunch on Saturday. It wasn’t, perhaps, the best I could have done, and I feel bad about how much I ate, but it may have been better (in the light of Saturday) than getting a loaf of bread for lunch today as I would have done otherwise. So . . . more and better self control. Yes, obviously.
Got my prayers in, got my reading in, and kept myself in moderate working order.

Were it enough to stand before a mirror
And say, “What’s done is depart. I’m free”
I wonder, should the silent speaker hear
Could he be coaxed or forced to then agree

Could I say to my shadow, “Hie thee hence,”
And running quickly leave it far behind
Would speed be counted as a just defence
Or would it leave a shadow on my mind

I cannot change the color of a hair
That grows upon my fool of a head
Nor can I make my reddened scars to fair
So it will be ‘till also I am dead

But what a change can you affect in me
And what a chance for man to yet be free

Do morning glories
blooming from the selfsame vine
gaze in vanity